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IFAs using network support provider Paradigm Financial Advisers face delays of up to two weeks for their cases to be checked and approved because of "unexpected" demand for the service.
The FSA must do more to help firms hit by the economic downturn, according to IFA network Tenet, after the regulator raised concerns about the quality of advice given by appointed representatives (ARs).
Despite rumours that Home of Choice (HOC) had gone into administration last week after the failure of acquisition talks, an 11th hour statement by chief executive officer Gerry O’Brien suggests that the business could still be saved.
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Phoenix Corporate Planning Group has bought up assets from the collapsed mortgage network Mortgage Times.
Openwork’s new CEO Martin Davis says the FSA’s proposed ‘restricted advice’ tag is causing a degree of concern amongst its 2,600 multi-tied advisers.
The directors of a Yorkshire-based financial group have been banned and fined by the FSA for putting 53 clients at risk of losing almost £10m.
The FSA has fined Richard Holmes, a director of insurance broker AIF Limited, the sum of £20,020 for control failings in relation to an appointed representative firm (AR).
The Financial Services Authority has issued a factsheet calling for an improvement by retail networks in their supervision of Appointed Representatives after a survey found potential shortcomings.
Newly launched mortgage network First4brokers has unveiled an online 'fastrack approval' process which it says clears an adviser's FSA authorisation to trade within just 14 days.
Introducers passing on mortgage business leads will not be required to be regulated under the FSA regime in certain cases but all other types of regulated financial business will require introducers to hold FSA authorisation, according to guidance from the AMI.
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