FCA cancels IFA's permissions for failing to act in clients' interests

Carmen Reichman
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has cancelled the permissions of independent financial adviser Martin Richard Moseling, trading as Blenheim Financial Services, for failing to act in clients' interests.

The regulator said Gloucestershire-based Moseling had failed to comply with an award made against him by the Financial Ombudsman Service, dated 5 September 2012. It concluded that he had failed to act in the interest of his customers. The FCA said in its final notice published today: "Mr Moseling's conduct has not met the requirements of Principle 6 (Customers' interests) of the Authority's Principles for Businesses under which a firm must pay due regard to the interests of its customers." Moseley had not appealed the FCA's decision within the 28 days following and has therefore been ...

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