But no plans to renew ban on short selling of financials

FSA to extend short selling disclosure regime

Story by: Sharon Flaherty, FTAdviser

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is proposing to extend its temporary disclosure regime for significant net short positions in the stocks of UK financial sector companies until 30 June.

  • Time published: 17.11
  • Date published: 05.01.2009
  • Published in: Regulation

Govt widens help for borrowers facing repossession

The government has extended its assistance for borrowers struggling to meet their mortgage repayments by bring forward the implementation of changes to the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit scheme.

  • Date published: 05.01.2009

Tories call for end to income tax on basic rate taxpayers' savings

David Cameron has proposed scrapping income tax on savings for everyone on the basic rate of tax in a bid to encourage saving.

  • Date published: 05.01.2009

MP rejects 'one-size-fits-all' RDR strategy

'IFAs should educated to a much higher standard and sales advisers to a much lower level' claims John McFall

  • Date published: 05.01.2009

Threesixty warns on RDR proposal

IFAs should increase their opposition to the Retail Distribution Review's proposal to extend the £20,000 capital adequacy requirement to small IFAs, as it poses a major threat to their professionalism, Threesixty has claimed.

  • Date published: 05.01.2009

Herrington agrees to stay on as chairman of RDC

The FSA has reappointed Tim Herrington as chairman of its Regulatory Decisions Committee for 2009.

  • Date published: 05.01.2009

Govt paralysed over mortgage approvals: Cable

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor, has criticised the banks and government in response to the news from the Bank of England (BoE) that mortgage approvals fell to a nine year low in November.

  • Date published: 02.01.2009

Countdown to ABI conference on the RDR

There is now just two weeks to go until the Association of British Insurers' (ABI) conference on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), held in association with Financial Adviser.

  • Date published: 02.01.2009

FSA re-appoints Herrington as RDC chairman

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has re-appointed Tim Herrington as chairman of its Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC).

  • Date published: 30.12.2008

Equitable hits out a "cruel" government for failure to apologise

Equitable Life bosses have hit out at the "cruel" government for failing to apologise to policyholders this year as was originally promised.

  • Date published: 29.12.2008

FSA to hold TCF seminar for compliance consultants

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is offering a training seminar to compliance consultants in Norwich to learn what the regulator expects from firms on its treating customers fairly (TCF) rules.

  • Date published: 29.12.2008

Feature

Squabbling over the RDR: the latest developments

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR), dreamt up in the shiny towers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in London’s Canary Wharf, is supposed to change the financial services industry landscape for the better.

  • Time published: 09.55
  • Date published: 19.12.2008
  • Published in: Regulation

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Year of the Ox awaits, or does it?

Since January the FSA has signalled trouble for advisory firms and the end user in its RDR proposals, but the publication of the Interim Report in April and the Feedback Statement in November suggest there is plenty to feel positive about in 2009

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 18.12.2008
  • Published in: Regulation

Feature

All the president's men

President-elect Obama's choices for Cabinet will be expected to right what's wrong with the US economy. But where to start?

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 18.12.2008
  • Published in: Regulation

Feature

Pre Budget report and financial planning

What impact will the pre Budget report have on financial planning in particular? Marcia Banner of Clerical Medical discusses the points that directly apply

  • Time published: 00.01
  • Date published: 01.01.2009
  • Published in: Regulation

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