FSA

IFAs shunned commercial property facilities when choosing SIPPs during 2008 with their major priority being FSA approval for the products, according to figures from Defaqto.

The FSA says it may consider intervening on product pricing as part of its drive to ensure fairer outcomes for consumers.

The continuing debate on specialist lenders' arrears management intensified last week, after City Minister Lord Myners called for a crackdown on charges levied by lenders when borrowers fall into mortgage arrears.

The FSA has banned mortgage broker Daniel Esqulant for inflating his income by up to five times on his mortgage applications.

The FSA today says it will "reinforce" its stance on non-monetary benefits, or ‘inducements', offered to advisers by product providers.

Almost nine in every ten advisers have no intention of selling their businesses despite "scaremongering" reports of an IFA exodus in the build up to the RDR, research suggests.

The initial reaction to the Chancellor's announcement of a relatively tame and limited package of reforms of financial regulation has to be that the most significant aspect is actually the Tories' response.

Financial advisers will have to publish their own complaints data under radical new proposals unveiled today by the FSA.

The Treasury today proposes reforming the way the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is funded and announces a wide-ranging review of the role of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in a white paper suggesting a raft of dramatic changes to...

FSA fines could treble in size to act as a ‘credible' deterrent to firms who breach the rules.