Highly-qualified IFAs are calling on the FSA to heed MPs' calls to delay the RDR for 12 months so they can adapt their businesses in time to swerve a potential mass market advice gap.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned and fined two directors of an IFA firm for giving unsuitable advice on unregualted collective investment schemes (UCIS).

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is investigating whether investors have the right to claim compensation against closed IFAs who advised on the CF Arch cru Investment and Diversified funds.

The threat of a stock market crash has risen to a "one in three" chance, the chief executive of the respected Centre for Economics and Business Research has warned.

Labour MP Russell Brown has accused the government of trying to "sweep the failures of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) under the carpet", after it refused a parliamentary debate into the regulatory oversight of those managing the failed Arch cru...

The industry is split on the merits of the Treasury Select Committee's (TSC) key recommendation to delay the RDR for 12 months until 1 January 2014.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) may have lost the battle with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the RDR, but in the long war of financial services regulation it will seek to have its recommendations written into the successor Financial Conduct...

The Financial Service Authority's (FSA) evidence to the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) offers a look at the regulator's most up-to-date thinking on the shape of things pre and post-RDR.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) will begin an inquiry into the accountability of the successor regulator to the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has called for a 12 month delay to the RDR to enable more advisers to reach Level 4, among a series of other concessions, but the FSA has flatly refused any negotiation on a change to its plans.