FSA

Gordon Brown has confirmed the General Election will be held on 6 May, with the state of the economy and the future of financial services regulation to be the key manifesto targets.

An adviser has been banned by the FSA for exposing customers to the risk of receiving unsuitable advice and failing to take remedial action.

Most did, some didn't (you know who you are!).

It's not often I praise the FSA but I must say the concept of insisting advisers dress according to a certain code makes complete sense to me.

A 2% contribution charge levied on members of NEST suggests the FSA's Basic Advice scheme will fail, Sesame says.

IFAonline editor Katrina Baugh on the FSA’s recent Discussion Paper on platforms.

The get-tough attitude of the FSA in response to the credit crunch has produced a second successive year of record breaking fines.

Now that you have all read the FSA's latest RDR paper in full (naturally), IFAonline welcomes you to its ever-so-slightly leftfield guide to last week's developments...

Gartmore has suspended high profile fund manager Guillaume Rambourg pending the outcome of an internal investigation in relation to trading breaches.

The FSA has charged a third individual linked to the Littlewood insider dealing case.