Charlie Weston

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1,990 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Central Bank Launches Major Probe Into Life Insurance Companies · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

It's been going on now almost a year. matched

You know, I've seen complaints made about it to the regulatory authorities, the pension authority. matched

and the central bank, the complaints go back a year. matched

The central bank has been looking at this for over a year. matched

It could be at the very least the end of this year before this is finished. matched

And you're absolutely right. matched

There's an enormous job of work to be done here. matched

You're talking about large numbers of employees, sophisticated IT systems, and an awful lot of looking back and reviewing and auditing. matched

that has to be done. matched

It's quite complicated. matched

It's very involved. matched

And in some cases, you know, people may, you know, may not have lost out, but it's just taken an awful lot of work to work out. matched

Have people lost out? matched

Are they due refunds? matched

Or have people, you know, actually, it's worked out for them in their favor, the fact that they matched

insurance company was very slow in allocating their investments into the market but yeah it's absolutely enormous in terms of the scale of this and what i'm being told is this is the biggest probe that's ever been done into the domestic what's called the domestic life insurance sector in this country is this as big as the track on mortgage scandal and i'm not saying that this is a scandal i'm saying is this investigation going to be as detailed as what was required in relation to track on mortgages matched

That was said to me by a couple of people that we're on a scale here of in terms of the amount of investigative work that has to be done, we're on that kind of scale. matched

Unfortunately, the big gainers in that were in consultancy firms, legal firms, because it was so much work that had to be done. matched

If it turns out, I don't think it's going to turn out to be anything like the matched

tracker scandal in terms of, you know, what it's going to cost. matched

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