IFA comments: FSA should treat us fairly

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Last week's revelation of an IFA firm's difficulties with the Financial Services Authority, caused by a mistakenly-filed RMAR, provoked a flurry of reader responses.

These are a flavour of the comments we can publish. One IFA who has asked to remain anonymous says: "It is interesting that, if the FSA were not a tool of the government but a limited company, should it not be bound by the TCF rules? If it's a genuine mistake then the FSA should have no problem paying the money back. "If the FSA were a limited company then they would be, in effect, a service provider and like IFAs they would have to consider their clients, who include the advisory community and treat their customers fairly, rather than waste time and our money on dotting the I's and c...

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