The Financial Services Authority has recognised measuring the progress of the 'treating customers fairly' initiative will be difficult for firms and the regulator itself.
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries says advisers are struggling to keep up with regulatory changes and the cost of regulatory.
Continuing the points made by Roger Tym, partner at law firm Lovells in 'Look beyond MiFID warns law firm - part 1'
Woolwich is now able to receive full mortgage applications from Trigold's Prospector AAA sourcing system and e-trading centre.
The Financial Ombudsman Service caused a lot of anger among IFAonline readers last week with a double whammy in its monthly newsletter, attacking so-called ‘dramatic' claims and saying a small firms division is unnecessary.
‘Dramatic' claims against the Financial Ombudsman Service are unlikely to rock the foundations of the scheme, says chief ombudsman Walter Merricks.
The Mortgage Trading Exchange has stolen a march on Origo, by opening its electronic trading standards to enable them to integrate with other trading platforms.
Home information packs (Hip) could potentially wipe up to £5.7bn in gross domestic product from the UK economy and make almost 100,000 people jobless in the first year of their introduction, an independent report has said today.