Regulation

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.

A law firm has told Arch Cru investors it is unlikely they will end up receiving the entire £110m redress the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is expecting advisers to pay out.

The IFA Centre has begun lobbying the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) on alternative funding models for advisers - including a separate category for firms recommending riskier investments.

Less than 2% of Arch Cru investors have so far taken a complaint about the advice they received to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), it has been revealed.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Christchurch Investment Management, a small firm specialising in financial planning and portfolio management, £26,600 and its compliance officer £11,550 for failings in relation to the protection of client...

Prudential has announced details of its products eligible for adviser charging - allowing IFAs to receive fees direct from the provider, rather than the client.