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Autumn and early winter means one thing in ‘Mortgage-Land'; it's the time of the trade shows. You can't move for them. And if you include in that AMI's own regional conferences - which come to an end this week in Glasgow - then it's a very busy time not...

One third of firms have yet to reach the implementing stage of the ‘treating customers fairly' initiative, despite the Financial Services Authority setting March 2007 as the implementation deadline.

The Financial Services Authority has raised concerns some intermediaries are treating wrap platforms as an excuse for searching out short-term sources of funding without any consideration for building value in the longer term.

The Financial Services Authority has recognised measuring the progress of the 'treating customers fairly' initiative will be difficult for firms and the regulator itself.

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The Financial Services Authority has fined Loans.co.uk Limited £455,000 for failing to treat its customers fairly when selling payment protection insurance.

The Financial Services Authority is investigating the payment protection insurance selling practices of 10 firms with a view to taking enforcement action.

The FSA's shift to a principles-based approach to regulation has throw up the question of whether the FOS may move into the vacuum created by the removal of specific rules, says David Thomas, principle ombudsman at the FOS.

Aside from starting to build the Nucleus business and checking out Emily Perryman's latest beer unit count, the main areas of interest in my regular IFAonline blog are likely to now be just the regulatory approach to wrap and the evolving thoughts of...

The vast majority of intermediaries are now either ‘very aware' or ‘aware' of the Financial Services Authority's treating customers fairly initiative, according to the latest survey from the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (Ami).