The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned and fined a financial adviser for making unsuitable recommendations of high-risk and often unregulated investments.
Paul Reynolds has been fined £290,344 and banned from performing any function in relation to regulated activities on the basis he lacks integrity and as such is not "fit and proper". The regulator found that, between 2005 and 2010, while he was an approved person at Aspire Personal Finance, Reynolds recommended a number of complex and high risk products to his clients. Many were on low incomes and had little or no investment experience. The FCA said Reynolds was aware he could not justify the suitability of these products for his clients. Read: FOS rules poor advice in raft of...
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