FSA

Clients' protection needs must take priority over investment ones in a simplified advice regime, the FSA has said.

Cirencester friendly has said IFAs should not be held solely responsible for ensuring the working population is properly protected, but warned the FSA is watching them.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) and the Institute of Insurance Brokers (IIB) have called for regulatory barriers to be lowered and for the current inappropriate style and intensity of regulation to be reformed.

Paul Broadhead of the Building Society Association lays out his plan to revive the mortgage market to Paul Robertson.

The protection market is shrinking and becoming more concentrated in the hands of a few providers, according to figures from the FSA.

Defaqto has warned that the public should not be turned off protection products following the fall out of the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal.

Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) complainants received a total of £215m in redress in the first half of 2011, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has revealed.

HM Treasury believes simple products by definition should be allowed to be sold without advice.

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The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) is supporting targeted regulation of comparison sites.