FSA

The FSA has banned four mortgage brokers and imposed fined totalling £450,000 on three of them for knowingly using misleading and inaccurate information to secure mortgages.

Three European asset management firms have accused banks including Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., HSBC Holdings Plc, Barclays Bank Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG of conspiring to manipulate Libor.

Hector Sants, the FSA chief executive, has admitted the "considerable" costs of implementing Solvency II may outweigh the short-term benefits to the industry.

So how did N&P's advisers take the company from a safe-as-houses building society to the centre of one of the biggest mis-selling scandals of the decade?

The FSA has issued a warning about a Geneva-based firm which may be luring in UK customers who think they are dealing with wealth manager St James's Place.

Joanne Young asks the industry: Is the FSA's Retail Conduct Risk Outlook paper right on ETF complexity?

The FSA has fined one IFA firm and censured another for advice failings on unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) and geared traded endowment polices (GTEPs).

The FSA gave platforms just two weeks to respond to an operational questionnaire which will be key in helping the regulator decide whether to pursue its controversial plan to ban cash rebates.

Director-general of TISA Tony Vine-Lott asks whether our efforts to protect consumers could prove counter productive?

The compliance industry is out of step with the FSA over how to assess clients' attitude to risk, exposing advisers to unnecessary enforcement action, IFA consolidator Succession warns.