Regulation

TCF's core objective is to improve consumer understanding of financial services. Head of the initiative, Nausicaa Delfas, tells Peter Carvill about her hopes to see a fully integrated agenda within firms

The outcome of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) should not matter as advisers must change their business models to succeed anyway, according to transition planner FP Advance.

THE Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) should be accessible, accountable and predictable in its approach, according to the ABI.

TREATING Customers Fairly (TCF) is the number one regulatory challenge and the prime area of regulatory risk for more than 80pc of the UK's financial services firms, according to research conducted by the Financial Services Discussion Club (FSDC) and...

AIFA has published a set of TCF Management Information (MI) documents aimed at assisting firms with a number of aspects of the new regulation.

THE FSA has today announced a number of management changes following the departure of retail markets chief Clive Briault.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will cause the financial advice market to become segmented in the next five to ten years, according to Nick Cann, chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP).

THE FSA has said that its RDR interim report, due in April, will focus on three key areas: remuneration, professionalism and its proposals for Primary Advice.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has warned the industry not to divert attention away from focusing on conduct of business (COB) requirements in light of recent market volatility.

UK retail consumers are a step closer to having access to a wider range of alternative products after Funds of Alternative Investment Funds (FAIFs) were placed under the FSA's regulatory remit.