FSA

The Financial Services Authority has boosted its staff numbers since the financial crisis, when just four and a half employees were tasked with regulating the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Law firm Pannone is offering pro bono legal advice to Arch Cru investors to help them recover the millions of pounds lost in the fund range.

The Financial Services Authority has appointed a former chairman of the British Bankers Association as a non-executive director of the Money Advice Service board.

A change to the way in which financial advisers working within solicitors firms are regulated could force law firms to shut down their financial services businesses, a solicitor said.

There are many lessons to be learned from the near-collapse of RBS. Special advisers to the Treasury Select Committee Bill Knight and Sir David Walker set out what they believe were the four main mistakes which led to the bank's downfall - and how they...

Special advisers to the Treasury Select Committee have revealed they felt compelled to press the Financial Services Authority to better scrutinise its role in the downfall of Royal Bank of Scotland.

Adviser Philippa Gee has said she has taken on more clients in the last six months who have suffered past mis-selling than she has come across at any time in her 20 year career.

The FSA's "deficient" supervision of banks in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis was partly down to the diversion of senior managers' attention toward matters seen as more pressing at the time, such as the retail distribution review (RDR) and Equitable...

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has called for the Financial Services Authority to be accountable over its intervention into the traded life settlement investment industry, which the trade body said has caused "real consumer detriment"....

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin's alleged affair had no impact on the downfall of the bank, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided.