FSA

SIPP operators have warned disclosing the interest they earn on investors' cash accounts is more complicated than FSA proposals suggest.

A corporate finance adviser has been fined £150,000 and banned from regulated financial services for engaging in market abuse.

Fewer firms welcome the RDR today compared with two years ago, according to a wide-ranging survey by the FSA Practitioner Panel.

The number of IFAs in FSA enforcement action is rising because of "mad and manic" regulation which goes further than that of any other G20 country, says a leading City lawyer.

Pension providers have expressed concern about the effectiveness of recent FSA proposals to make SIPPs more transparent.

The FSA is to run a series of roadshows to help IFAs prepare for the RDR, at a cost of £20 per adviser.

After a turbulent week for the retail financial services industry it is time to take stock and evaluate the impact on advisers and their clients. Will they be better or worse off?

Financial advisers under FSA investigation are forced to undergo a police-style ‘interrogation' at Canary Wharf and are threatened with losing their permissions if they refuse to answer all of the regulator's questions, according to a solicitor close...

Matt Connell, government and industry affairs manager at Zurich UK Life, looks back at regulatory change in the noughties and gives his insights into future policy

Alex Morris, partner and IFA at Financial Relationships, says the FSA intends newly accredited bodies to audit firms’ professional standards on its behalf post-RDR.