FSA

Once we have cleared away the snow and dusted down the latest consultation paper (CP 09/31) from the FSA on the Retail Distribution Review, the three year countdown will start in earnest.

The past year has been a turbulent one for the SIPP market with much confusion as to the responsibilities being placed on advisers and providers. According to Billy Mackay the time has come to bring clarification to the market

Applewood Wealth Management has outlined plans to acquire six adviser businesses over the next 12 months.

IFAs face a race against time to get in shape for the RDR, with some firms plagued by a mindset of resistance to change, according to transitional planning firm FP Advance.

A London-based mortgage broker has had his approval withdrawn for failing to co-operate with the FSA.

A former research analyst, Robin Chhabra and his friend Sameer Patel, a spread better, have been found guilty of market collusion and fraud by the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal (the Tribunal).

An asset management company is set to launch offering low cost passive investment solutions to IFAs.

A suggestion financial advisers should be allowed to take resource material into examinations to better replicate their working conditions has sparked a frenzied debate among industry figures.

Adviser anger over FSA plans to change protection commission disclosure is building ahead of a consultation on the issue in March.

The FSA has fined County Down mortgage intermediary Case Funding Centre (CFC) £35,000 for failures which led to at least 16 fraudulent mortgage applications being submitted to lenders.