Regulation

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The FSA will not be able to simply read-across its adviser charging rules to the group personal pension (GPP) market, according to industry experts.

The FSA will merge its retail and wholesale supervision departments as part of a wide-range of reforms in October.

It could take five years for IFA firms to overhaul their charging model, leaving them little time to comply with the forthcoming RDR, warns Positive Solutions.

IFA network Sesame says its impending acquisition of Bankhall will give it the "scale" necessary to thrive in a post-RDR world.

The FSA has fined Richard Holmes, a director of insurance broker AIF Limited, the sum of £20,020 for control failings in relation to an appointed representative firm (AR).

SIPPs are future-proofed and will prove robust in the post-RDR world, according to Defaqto.

The FSA's chairman, Lord Turner, has warned bankers radical changes in regulation are essential in order to avoid future crises.

The FSA has banned a compliance director at award-winning packager Chase UK Corporation for exposing his firm to fraudulent activity.

Hargreaves Lansdown says the biggest question for the firm resulting from the RDR is whether to maintain its ‘independent' label.