FSA

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct 'regulatory reviews' of small businesses and tour a series of workshops to give firms face-to-face time with the regulator.

Smaller mutual societies could disappear due to the increasing burden of regulatory costs, Exeter Family Friendly has warned.

Stephen Gay, the director general of the Association of IFAs (AIFA), and Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) chief executive Nick Cann are among those set to discuss the new financial services regulatory regime with MPs this week.

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held joint talks today on how to tighten cross-Atlantic regulation and enforcement.

The FSA is to scrutinise the quality of advice given by firms who operate a 'centralised investment proposition' ahead of the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has cancelled the permissions of an Ayshire-based firm to carry on regulated activities after it failed to co-operate on Treating Customer Fairly (TCF) visits.

Adair Turner has spent more than £66,000 in the past 15 months flying around the world as FSA chairman - largely because he never flys any lower than business class.