The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has cancelled an adviser's Part IV permissions for his failure to submit a Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) for 2011.
The FSA today published its new data reporting rules for Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) forms. Here is IFAonline's breakdown of the changes you need to know.
The FSA says proposals to collect extra sales data from advice firms are not part of wider plans to effectively control how much they charge for their services.
Three past and present IFAs have broken the taboo on talking about their encounters with an FSA investigation team. Laura Miller discovers an industry divided between suspicion of the rule maker and fair-minded support for the rules...
Two mortgage brokers are among six firms that have had their permissions cancelled by the FSA after failing to submit their Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMAR).
The FSA's latest reporting system for intermediaries, Gabriel, has been suspended due to technical glitches.
Paradigm Mortgage Services has today launched a new quarterly compliance newsletter, Target.
Advisers can receive commission statements electronically and match them against their expected income after the latest launch by IFA technology provider Plum Software.
The FSA may levy an administrative charge on firms that persistently submit poorly completed Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMARs).
The Financial Services Authority banned 151 small firms from carrying out regulated activities in 2006/07.