Regulation

A boiler room scammer used a real IFA's name and FSA number to con investors out of thousands of pounds.

The City of London police and the FSA are warning investors to be on their guard as boiler room fraudsters are using new tactics to persuade investors to pay tens of thousands of pounds for non-existent shares.

The FSA is investigating Prudential and its investment bank advisers Credit Suisse, JPMorgan and HSBC over the insurer's $35bn aborted bid for AIA, according to reports.

The FSA has issued a warning about a Geneva-based firm which may be luring in UK customers who think they are dealing with wealth manager St James's Place.

What will the financial services sector be like when the regulator can ban products and suspend their sale for up to 12 months, Lawrence Gosling asks.

Hopes the FSA will delay the introduction of the RDR have been quashed with the announcement one of its replacement entities, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will not come into being until 2013, IFA Alan Lakey says.

Tony Stenning, head of UK retail at BlackRock, looks at the surge of new legislation set to hit UK investors.

A corporate finance adviser has been fined £150,000 and banned from regulated financial services for engaging in market abuse.

Firms have not changed the way they assess clients’ suitability in 20 years, but new guidance from the FSA pulls no punches, writes Bob Freeman, vice-president of Voyant UK

The FSA has fined and banned two partners at investment firm Clark Rees £28,000 for advice failings in relation to unregulated collective investment schemes.