The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has proposed to ban the promotion of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to the vast majority of retail investors.
A former investment banker and his wife have been ordered to pay more than £1.5m for their benefits from insider dealing and warned they may have to serve extra jail time if they fail to do so.
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will have "clear detrimental effects" on the accessibility of financial advice and lower overall savings rates, Lord Flight has warned.
Small firms caught up in the mis-selling of complex interest rate derivative products face up to a nine month wait to hear if they qualify for compensation.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is launching a series of seminars to explain its latest guidance on centralised investment propositions (CIPs) and replacement business to financial advisers.
A compliance officer has received a partial prohibition from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to prevent unregulated collective investment scheme (UCIS) mis-selling by one of his firm's directors.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned of a second man contacting firms pretending to be from the regulator.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned that most crowdfunding schemes should only be targeted at sophisticated investors, amid concerns about their risk and complexity.