Regulation

The draft Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) published today limits the ban on receiving commission payments from product providers to independent financial advisers.

MPs and Peers have been warned that proposals to publish warning notices will put some small firms out of business.

Providers' claims that attitude-to-risk questionnaires can be as much as 93% accurate are being challenged by advisers.

UK financial services would have more say over EU legislation if it said anything at all...

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A London-based independent financial adviser (IFA) has become the latest business to be cloned by fraudsters.

MPs today accused the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of failing in its duty to regulate Capita's management of the Arch cru fund range and of trying to cover up its failings by colluding with the company to force a £54m payment scheme on investors....

Mark Hoban, the financial secretary to the Treasury, has backed Capita's Arch cru payment scheme and told investors they should go after their independent fnancial advisers (IFA) for compensation.

Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) chief executive Nick Cann will tell MPs the increasing layers of regulation faced by financial advisers will not improve the public's access to advice when he appears in Parliament this week.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held joint talks today on how to tighten cross-Atlantic regulation and enforcement.