FSA

The FSA today warned firms promoting enterprise investment schemes (EISs) and venture capital trusts (VCTs) to beware marketing the products primarily on their tax incentives.

The Treasury has denied the new regulatory structure set to replace the Financial Services Authority (FSA) will clash with European regulation.

An upcoming FSA consultation examining the possibility of updating the examination standards for investment managers will include the controversial issue of grandfathering.

A former director of collapsed IFA network Alpha 2 Omega (A2O) failed to act on a handful of "notorious" advisers known to be aggressively pushing unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to clients, earning them the monikers 'the famous five'...

The government has rejected calls to prioritise a review of Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) funding.

Hector Sants, the current chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and Bank of England governor Mervyn King have been named among the most influential people in the European capital markets.

The FSA has gone viral, posting its first consumer guidance video on how to avoid falling victim to land banking schemes on YouTube.

Watch our latest interview with the CII about your gap fill needs in the run-up to RDR, and your CPD requirements after it.

"Not all ETFs are created equal. A worrying and common misconception in the market is the expectation that ETF's are a homogonous product set without looking into the assets backing the portfolio or the quality of the third parties involved in managing...

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