Regulation

Over 3000 IFAs have downloaded the JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) Treating Customers Fairly report, in a bid to be compliant before the December deadline.

The FSA says it is unlikely to change its policy on how long consumers are legally entitled to make complaints against IFAs.

The FSA is running the risk of undermining TCF after announcing it will accelerate the full integration of the initiative into its day-to-day regulation of firms, the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) warns.

All firms will be tested on the principles of treating customers fairly (TCF) from January 2009 as the FSA accelerates its implementation programme.

The unsettling spectacle of markets crashing around us might have distracted the more routine aspects of advising clients in past months so advisers would be forgiven for parking Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) at the back of their minds.

Clare Ward takes a look at the steps that corporate IFAs need to take to prepare for the introduction of personal accounts in 2012

Mike Morrison clarifies the issues surrounding QROPS?

New wrap platform Novia Financial has formed a partnership with technology provider FinQS to offer cost effective TCF management information tools for advisers.

Paul Davies goes through the issues advisers and their clients need to be aware of when dealing with QROPS