Regulation

GOODBYE FSA

Peter Smith, head of investment policy at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is leaving the regulator.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined wholesale insurer Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (Europe) £3.3m for serious corporate governance failings.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told banks the new regulatory system will push them to weed out potentially harmful products and demand they pay particular attention to treating customers fairly.

A chartered financial planner claims to have found evidence of attempts to maximise commission by both bank advisers and IFAs ahead of the RDR.

A car supermarket has been fined £91,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to properly monitor sales of payment protection insurance.

Professional indemnity insurance (PII) experts have questioned the FSA's view that its redress scheme for Arch Cru investors will have no impact upon the future availability of cover for IFAs.

Fifteen years after Gordon Brown gave the Bank of England its independence, Dan Conaghan examines how it has fared.

IFA network, In-Partnership has taken on several technology solutions from Capita Financial Software that will integrate with the company's back office system.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) is calling for submissions on the future of the Money Advice Service (MAS) - the national free consumer advice scheme funded, in part, by the financial services industry.