FSA

The FSA is cracking down on unsuitable investments in SIPPs, but SSAS could be the new target for unscrupulous salesmen. Rachel Dalton reports.

In response to an FSA consultation paper on the post-RDR treatment of legacy assets, Cofunds’ managing director of operational services, Stephen Mohan, fears the regulator’s failure to issue new rules may harm consumers.

Three advisers explain what they are (or are not) doing to educate clients about certain changes due at the end of the year.

Questions have been raised over pension provider Rockingham Group Plc, after a first strike-off notice from Companies House was posted in January.

Plans to ban traded life policy (TLP) investments may have consigned the products to the investment bin – but advocates say they offer benefits like no other asset class.

The payment protection insurance (PPI) debacle has been one of the biggest cases of mis-selling in history, but this story shows just how ambitious some bank advisers selling the policies were...

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has confirmed it will press ahead with the ban on commission, despite suggestions European Commission proposals could hamper, or even put an end to, its plans.

The FSA has fined Ravi Shankar Sinha, the former CEO of JC Flowers & Co UK, £2.867m for fraudulently obtaining £1.367m for himself from a company owned by a private equity fund advised by JC Flowers by means of a fictitious invoicing scheme.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has appointed a former vice chairman of Lazard & Co as its investment banking sernior adviser.

Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), said yesterday he was "talked into" applying for the most senior post at the regulator as he apologised for the failure of RBS.