Regulation

People who really need good financial advice risk being shut out by FSA-led industry reforms, shadow pensions minister Nigel Waterson says.

Platforms risk being undermined by a lack of transparency and must address some crucial questions if the RDR is to be effective, warns Novia.

The FSA has fined and banned a former UBS employee for helping cover-up unauthorised trading losses.

Hector Sants, chief executive of the FSA, is warming to suggestions he could become deputy governor at the Bank of England under a Tory Government.

Schroders' Richard Buxton believes the RDR could flush-out managers who simply track their index while charging hefty management fees.

The FSA has proposed implementing a minimum £1,000 fee for all regulated firms, as part of reforms to its levy calculations.

Both the industry and the regulator are responsible for the financial crisis and its impact on the UK, according to the FSA's chief executive, Hector Sants.

Government pension proposals need a 'dose of common sense' to work in the real world, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF)

Two individuals and seven businesses thought to be part of ‘boiler room' share fraud activity were yesterday at the centre of the FSA's ongoing clamp down on share fraud.

The FSA should reconsider its proposals for qualification standards for simplified advice processes to determine where QCF level 3 might be sufficient, insurer Aegon says.