"The RDR would be laughable if it wasn't actually being inflicted upon us."
The FSA has published its final rules designed to enhance firms' liquidity risk management practices.
Sarah Thwaites, director of skills development at the Financial Services Skills Council, discusses the introduction of QCF Level 4 draft core units.
Talks over the transfer of 240 Park Row advisers to 2plan Wealth Management may have fallen through as a result of legislation introduced three years ago to preserve employees' terms and conditions when switching employer.
The ifs School of Finance is hosting a workshop to help adviser firms' senior managers gain a better awareness of the FSA's approach to risk assessment.
National IFA 2plan Wealth Management this afternoon expressed its "surprise" after learning talks over the transfer of 240 IFAs from Park Row had collapsed.
The FSA today told advisers and providers: there is no hope the RDR will not happen.
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) says mortgage product regulation by the FSA will unnecessarily restrict consumer access to the housing market.
The FSA has burst a growing bubble of opinion it intends to cut the number of financial advice firms in the UK by "over-regulating" the sector.
The FSA today ordered firms reopen about 185,000 previously-rejected payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints and reassess them.