Regulation

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has voiced concerns about advisers' gap-fill progress ahead of RDR implementation at the end of the year.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is reassuring advisers they do not need to record telephone conversations with clients after some received inaccurate promotions suggesting they did.

Consumer group Which? has listed absolute return funds and task-based income protection cover among a list of 'financial products to avoid'.

The Financial Service Authority (FSA) saw the number of boiler room fraud schemes operating through clones of authorised firms triple in 2011.

Advisers solely recommending risk-rated funds are opening themselves up to "danger", Skandia has warned.

The chief executive of Arch Financial Products (AFP) has hit out at Capita after the board it appointed to administer the Arch Cru cells hit him with a £26.6m lawsuit.

Advisers have criticised the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for failing to protect firms from invalid mis-selling cases levelled by claims management companies (CMCs).

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has shut down about one in five claims management companies (CMCs) over the past year, in many cases following complaints from consumers.

A Newport-based financial adviser has admitted to fraudulently gaining almost £250,000 from clients and an insurer, as well as perverting the course of justice.

An IFA has been instructed to compensate a couple their entire invested capital in a Keydata bond plus interest after an ombudsman found he "completely disregarded" their interests when advising them.