FSA

The FSA has rejected the approval of a financial adviser after a previous employer highlighted "serious inadequacies" in his pension transfer work.

Hopes the FSA will delay the introduction of the RDR have been quashed with the announcement one of its replacement entities, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will not come into being until 2013, IFA Alan Lakey says.

An IFA has had her permissions to carry on regulated activities cancelled for failing to deal with 12 County Court Judgments (CCJ), totalling £531,224.

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Both sides of the coin for Holloway products

The FSA has proposed linking the definition of a Holloway product to four key criterion, to pave the way for certain plans gaining exemption from RDR adviser charging rules.

Low interest rates are leading investors to seek riskier investments to beat inflation which could be storing up future problems in the financial system, according to the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

The FSA has been criticised for multiple failures related to its delivery of enforcement documents, including leaving unencrypted discs with a neighbour of the subject of an investigation.

New product structures are emerging to provide a wider range of investment options. But is innovation moving faster than customer education? Emma Cusworth reports

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