Regulation

The FSA will not push ahead with an ethical code just for investment advisers and has confirmed it will focus on key individuals within firms.

Chancellor George Osborne's aides say complete abolition of the FSA is still on the table, adding the regulator will certainly lose its independent role.

The FSA has extended by five months the time customers can make complaints to the Ombudsman over purchasing payment protection insurance(PPI).

The regulator says it will not implement AIFA's call for a "major overhaul" of adviser levies until further consultation, which will not see any changes introduced until 2011/12.

In the run up to the election, there are changes on the horizon for regulating insurance, particularly in the area of consumer protection.

Reaction to the FSA's consultation paper CP10/8 on pure protection sales by retail investment firms has been positive.

There is much of interest in the FSA releases today (26 march). The debate about fund manager rebates will get louder and continue for a couple of months. For those of us who are also interested in protection, the paper 10/8 (Pure protection sales by...

The FSA has issued four questions for the protection industry as part of its Consulation Paper 10/8.

The FSA believes there is there is no consumer detriment in allowing advisers who operate under COBS rules to maintain their current commission based charging.

The FSA has abandoned the reading-across of RDR labelling to pure protection.