Regulation

Business secretary Vince Cable plans to target the red tape 'deluge' which he says is "stifling" enterprise in the UK.

The FSA has levied its largest ever fine of £33.32m on J.P. Morgan Securities for client money breaches over a seven-year period.

The FSA has extended by five months the time customers can make complaints to the Ombudsman over purchasing payment protection insurance(PPI).

The regulator says it will not implement AIFA's call for a "major overhaul" of adviser levies until further consultation, which will not see any changes introduced until 2011/12.

The FSA's proposed ban on fund manager rebates will "strike at the heart" of the platform pricing model and create an unlevel playing field, warns Tisa.

The Financial Services Regulation Bill has confirmed the regulatory buck now stops with the Bank of England (BoE), not the FSA.

The Queen today confirmed the coalition government will legislate for the phasing out of the default retirement age (DRA) and set a timetable for raising the state pension age, depending on the outcome of a review.

The FSA has warned smaller firms to expect greater individual intervention where serious failings are found, as part of its intensive supervision.

The FSA has sent out written warnings to 38,000 investors whose details were discovered on a 'master list' used by boiler room fraudsters.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put in place new stock trading restrictions to prevent a repeat of the Dow's dramatic plunge earlier this month.