FSA

What advisers can learn from the defined contribution pension market

The most amusing point about the "infernally-insular" debate on whether IFA or restricted is best, according to Openwork head of strategy Campbell Macpherson, is that the people who ultimately pay advisers' wages couldn't care less.

New FSA powers have come into effect, giving the regulator the ability to deliver "prompt and effective" redress for consumers.

The FSA has banned three individuals for mortgage fraud and fined two of them a total of £414,683.

Editors of the Financial Times, Guardian, Reuters and the Times have written to the FSA urging it to scrap "misguided" anti-leak rules designed to curb journalists' contacts with regulated firms.

The average waiting time to receive FSA authorisation has almost doubled in the last year, according to figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request.

The FSA will challenge the British Bankers' Association's judicial review of its new PPI complaints handling measures.

Critical illness (CI) sales scripts are ready for implementation by the end of the year following approval from the FSA and Association of British Insurers (ABI).

The FSA has cancelled an insurance broker's Part IV permissions for failing to meet its capital adequacy requirements.

Tony Vine-Lott, director general of TISA, says the industry must present a united front on DIFs or face the consequences from the regulator Tony Vine-Lott, director general of TISA (Tax Incentivised Savings Association), says the industry must present a united front on DIFs or face the consequences from the regulator