The Financial Services Authority has launched an e-learning package for small firms to help them work out what financial resources they need to meet regulatory requirements.
The Financial Services Authority has launched a "Money Laid Bare" website for consumers to help them get to grips with their finances and feel more confident about the subject of money.
The FSA may have to revisit its position and rules on depolarisation, including Initial Disclosure Documents and the menu system as the result of proposals in the latest draft directive on financial services, warns APCIMS.
IFAs have criticised the Financial Services Authority for shutting down its Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) site at the weekend, just one week before the reporting deadline.
Single premium payment protection insurance policies are bad value and should be outlawed as part of a clean up of the PPI industry, according to the British Insurance Broker's Association (BIBA).
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers' announcement, revealing it has highlighted the problems of the Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) to the FSA, has provoked a flurry of responses from IFAs.
STANDARD LIFE'S long-suffering policyholders were dealt another bitter blow yesterday after the firm cut its pay-outs on with-profits plans for the sixth consecutive year - this time by up to 18%, wrote The Scotsman .
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has submitted a paper to the Financial Services Authority highlighting the common problems members have reported in relation to the Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR).
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has expressed "serious concern" to the government over whether home information packs (Hips) will be implemented on time and the risks of making over-optimistic assumptions about their market impact.
The Financial Services Practitioner Panel is launching the first stage of its 2006 survey of regulated firms to obtain an industry assessment of the Financial Services Authority (FSA).