Regulation

An inexperienced director who fabricated elements of her CV has been blocked from buying Financial Services Authority (FSA) authorised firm Think Finance.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) must provide the industry with examples of good practice, something that has been "missing" from regulatory correspondence to date, according to the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has imposed a fine of £17,850 on Graeham Sampson, the former finance director of Montpelier Pension Administration Services Limited (MPAS).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) "should and could" have intervened in the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS's) ill-fated acquisition of ABN Amro, a damning report by the Treasury Committee concludes.

Barclays' wealth arm is in talks with the regulator about charging asset managers administration fees when their funds are recommended for private client portfolios.

Threadneedle's Gary Collins explains what the new range of RDR share classes mean for advisers and their clients.

Venture capital trusts (VCTs) and enterprise investment schemes (EISs) are to fall under the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) upcoming guidance on unregulated collective investments schemes (UCIS).

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (UK) Limited (SLOC UK) has been fined £600,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failings in the governance of its with-profits business.

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

The number of financial advisers operating in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last few years and is likely to decline further as direct-to-consumer (D2C) propositions attract investors, a study suggests.