Regulation

A dealer in retail properties has been jailed for three years for defrauding investors in deals exceeding £1.3m.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned investors an unauthorised firm masquerading as Invesco Perpetual is attempting to sell fake funds.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) could bill investment advisers a further £30m after returning the money to firms who miscalculated their levies.

Financial companies can expect increased scrutiny from prosecutors and regulators as the biggest overhaul of Britain's bribery laws in more than a hundred years comes into force today.

A land banking trader has been ordered to pay back £920,000 to consumers after the FSA secured a summary judgement through the courts.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has voiced fears the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) could harm the UK's competitiveness.

The FSA has acted against an individual suspected of involvement in an unauthorised collective investment scheme.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will establish a new market analysis team to monitor products carrying very high returns as it hints it may intervene on pricing where it suspects competition has become impaired or consumers are being treated unfairly....

Consumer groups will have the power to insist regulators investigate complaints of mass mis-selling of financial products when the Financial Conduct Authority takes over in 2013, Mark Hoban, financial secretary, will announce today.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) is ready and able to improve consumers' financial education and the burden will not fall solely on advisers, FSA chief executive Hector Sants has said.