FSA

OVERKILL?

COMPLAINTS

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has completed its consultation on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Lansons' head of regulatory consulting.

The Financial Services Bill has passed through to the House of Lords without any significant amendments affecting financial advisers, including the reintroduction of a long-stop.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pensions stories this week.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has warned that consumers are ignoring the risks around unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), even when they are spelled out by their advisers.

Advisers should push ahead with platform strategy reviews amid concerns the delayed platform paper could see them "take their foot off the pedal", Alliance Trust Savings has warned.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a self-appointed insurance broking director from performing regulated functions after he "misled" the regulator and acted dishonestly.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged the Money Advice Service (MAS) to expand its offerings and ‘push regulatory boundaries' in order to help to close the advice gap.

The Upper Tribunal has upheld the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) decision to ban and fine two former UBS advisers £1.3m in relation to an unauthorised trading scheme.