FSA

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is offering small firms free retail distribution review (RDR) consultation sessions to give the regulator their feedback.

The changing tide of regulation is having the opposite effect to what the FSA is attempting to achieve, research suggests.

The FSA wants firms to tell the regulator exactly what kind of advice they give to customers.

The FSA hopes to ease the regulatory burden on firms by simplifying and shortening return reports.

The FSA has confirmed advisers will have much greater flexibility on how they provide information to their customers on their status, the nature of their advice and how they are paid.

The FSA has come up against "considerable opposition" to its new Decision Procedure and Penalties Manual and Enforcement guides.

The FSA has today confirmed the introduction of a more outcome-focused and flexible Training and Competence (T&C) regime.

The FSA has today confirmed the proposed transfer of engagements from Portman Building Society and Nationwide Building Society.

The FSA says it has found senior management often presents a "risk" to a firm's bid to meet its treating customers fairly (TCF) principles.

An insurance liability product protecting individual IFAs - whether set up alone or working in a larger firm - from the "investigatory powers" of the FSA has been launched.