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PanaceaIFA’s chief executive has hit out at the number of high-profile departures at the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Peter Smith today became the latest in a series of high profile departures from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the past few years.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has criticised IFAs for trying to shirk responsibility for Arch Cru investors' losses, and has warned evidence of widespread mis-selling could trigger an industry-wide past business review of all recommendations to invest in the fund range.
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Mass mis-selling on the scale of the payment protection insurance (PPI) debacle will not be possible under the Financial Services Authority's replacement, the man who will head up the body has said.
The FSA said it may look at ways to improve the standard of advice for products that meet care fees funding needs.
Financial Services Authority(FSA)chief executive Hector Sants has ruled out rewarding firms with lighter touch regulation for good behaviour under the planned Financial Conduct Authority(FCA).
The FSA has named more of the team who will run the UK's ‘twin peaks' financial regulation post-2012, including its current major retail groups' director Clive Adamson who takes control of firms' supervision.
A corporate finance adviser has been fined £150,000 and banned from regulated financial services for engaging in market abuse.
Martin Wheatley, head of Hong Kong’s financial regulatory body, has emerged as a leading candidate to head the Consumer Protection and Markets Authority (CPMA) when it is spun out of the FSA next year, according to reports.
The FSA has turned the tables on boiler room conmen by cold calling the scammers to warn them off using the same tactic to cheat investors.
The FSA will recruit 30 more lawyers and investigators to combat commercial crime, even as it faces being broken up, according to reports.
The FSA has fined an Essex-based network director for putting customers at risk of receiving unsuitable advice on payment protection insurance (PPI).
The FSA has fined the director of a Gloucestershire-based IFA network £49,000 for putting customers at risk of poor pension switching advice during the business's rapid expansion.
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