FSA

The FSA has banned sole trader Joseph Masi, trading as Select Mortgage Services, for breaching a settlement agreement with the regulator and providing false and misleading information to it.

The industry will have to cough up costs of £616,000 each year in order to comply with the regulator's ethical code of conduct.

The FSA will not push ahead with an ethical code just for investment advisers and has confirmed it will focus on key individuals within firms.

The FSA has lost its first insider dealing case, as a finance director and two lawyers walked free from court today.

Chancellor George Osborne's aides say complete abolition of the FSA is still on the table, adding the regulator will certainly lose its independent role.

The FSA has levied its largest ever fine of £33.32m on J.P. Morgan Securities for client money breaches over a seven-year period.

Ben Goh, managing director of Financial Services Compliance (EU) Limited, looks at the outcomes of this year's Financial Services Act.

The FSA's current proposals on banning rebates could be detrimental to clients, writes Gary Shaughnessy, UK managing director at Fidelity International

The FSA has banned a commodity broker for manipulating coffee futures and options in the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange market.

The FSA will commence an investigation into Gartmore manager Guillaume Rambourg to determine whether he met the regulator's standards of an approved person.