FSA

Katherine Leaman, manager of the FSA's professional standards policy team, will leave the regulator and head to the private sector with a job at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Three men have been jailed for a total of 19 years for a boiler room scam which defrauded 1,700 investors of £27m, the FSA said today.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) may ban the practice of discretionary fund managers (DFMs) paying SIPP providers for inclusion on their platform, Defaqto warns.

The FSA has advised financial groups to withdraw or amend significantly more promotions in the past two years as part of a clamp-down on misleading advertising.

Advisers have just 500 days to meet the requirements of the RDR - or face finding another job - before the new rules come into force on 1 January 2013.

Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) building society has widened its investigation into advice by branch staff to include recommendations to invest in funds from JP Morgan, Standard Life and Legal & General.

Scottish Life's Jamie Clark explains why the case against AMDs is getting stronger the nearer we get to auto-enrolment.

Simplified advice poses a "systemic risk" to IFAs because it opens them up to mass compensation claims for unsuitable advice, according to Prudential.

Cofunds’ sales and marketing director Alastair Conway asks if we are focusing enough on consumer outcomes from the FSA policy paper.

After the fall-out from the FSA’s recent platform policy paper, CWC Research’s Clive Waller warns the regulator is not concerned enough about consumer outcomes