Regulation

The FSA has fined a former research analyst £50,000 for making misleading and inaccurate disclosures to clients through Bloomberg instant messenger.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has won a seat on the management board of the new European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), with two more senior FSA staff taking key roles at other EU watchdogs.

Are you afraid that when the RDR arrives the public will perceive advisers as charging fees for all products and so not consider coming to you for protection advice?

The regulator's about-turn to allow commission payments on Holloway-style income protection plans after 2012 proves the RDR neglected lower-premium paying consumers from the start.

An investment banker, his wife and a close friend have pleaded guilty to eight counts of insider dealing in a case brought to court by the FSA.

Technology consultancy AT8 assesses what last week's FSA warning on investment selection means for you.

Risk-profiling tools are imperfect models which threaten to turn the art of investing into an imprecise science and should only be used as a guideline, says Ian Lowes.

Plans to scrap or reform 192 quangos, including the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) and the Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman (PPFO), has been ‘botched' according to MPs.

The FSA is set to extend the list of RDR-ready qualifications with the addition of three possible routes, including one work-based assessment.

A company director has been fined £25,000 and banned from working in financial services for his part in a £2m insurance fraud scheme.