FSA

The FSA says all telephone and electronic communications where a firm "negotiates, agrees and arranges transactions in the equity, bond and derivatives markets" will need to be recorded from March 2009, in a bid to detect market abuse.

The FSA and the Bank of England should ensure their warnings about under-priced risk and potential liquidity problems are property acknowledged, says the Treasury Select Committee.

The biggest investor in Northern Rock, SRM Global, is preparing to launch legal action against the government and regulators this week over their role in the collapse of the nationalised bank, according to The Guardian .

The FSA has today published the latest addition to it Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) web site as the deadline for management information (MI) looms.

IFAs have come out strongly against Chartered Status being set as the minimum qualification post RDR, FSA managing director Clive Briault told delegates at the Retail Firms Division Conference today.

The FSA has appointed Alexander Justham as director of markets.

The FSA has outlined further progress to allow UK retail investors to access funds of hedge funds and other alternative investments.

The FSA says it will be stamping down on the 'widespread' problem of mortgage fraud in 2008.

Tahir Mahmood, a mortgage broker banned from conducting regulated business by the FSA for falsifying incomes, suggests the regulator would find many more brokers guilty of the crime if it stepped up its checks.

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has produced a guide on Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) for small firms, ahead of the FSA's March deadline.