Regulation

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said it no longer expects to raise an interim levy on investment advisers for the 2013/14 period.

When should advisers report unregulated investments to the FCA?

Standard Life has put contingency plans in place to relocate its operations should Scotland vote for independence.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Forex Capital Markets and FXCM Securities (FXCM UK) £4m for allowing the US-based FXCM Group to withhold profits worth £6m that should have been passed on to the UK business' clients.

EU policymakers have agreed a deal on pay in the asset management industry which includes a requirement that fund managers be paid half of any bonuses in units of their own funds.

Banking giant Credit Suisse "helped" thousands of its US customers avoid tax by opening Swiss accounts on their behalf, a report has claimed.

Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Daniel Godfrey says we should "interrogate quite hard" the assertion that the price of fund management has dropped elsewhere in the world, but not in the UK.

Lawyers are warning that advisers will suffer from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) practice of increasingly splitting complaints to achieve maximum rewards for consumers.

Scotland's £800bn fund management industry has begun to step up contingency plans in the event the country's populace votes for independence this September.

The chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Mark Neale has defended his organisation's multi-million pound spend on marketing, saying it will help protect the industry from detrimental consumer behaviour.