FSA retail markets managing director Clive Briault told an FSA conference this week that identifying firms making slow progress with TCF by March and “bringing them to the stage” will be central to its supervisory work.
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McFall says FSA could learn from ASA on financial advertising
Treasury Committee chairman John McFall MP has written to the FSA to express concern about the its regulation of financial advertising.
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Base rate rise could cost borrowers almost £300m
Egg warns that today’s 0.25% increase in the Bank of England’s base rate could cost borrowers £292m.It says the eight million people with standard variable rate mortgages could collectively be paying substantially more a month more on their mortgages, or on average around £35.92 each.However, Egg says that many people could actually reduce their mortgage […]
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Ihave focused on one of the Miton Optimal funds – the strategic fund – already. It has had a hard time this year due to a big cash bias and its limited ability to buy into alternative asset classes. Miton therefore proposes to launch the Arcturus fund, which will be a non-Ucits retail scheme taking […]
Johnson Fleming's fundraising challenge for CLIC Sargent
Johnson Fleming’s current charity of the year is CLIC Sargent: the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families.
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HSBC faces legal action from 400 investors over film tax scheme
Law firm Edwin Coe has commenced litigation on behalf of 400 investors against HSBC over its role in facilitating the operation of the Disney film financing investment scheme known as Eclipse. Money Marketing first reported that affected investors including celebrities and football managers were eyeing up a landmark legal challenge 18 months ago. The legal […]
Lucy Brown: Protection providers need to go further on cancer contracts
Earlier this month, World Cancer Day raised awareness of the disease that continues to affect so many of us. There are few people who will not know someone who has been affected by cancer in some way. Cancer affects people of all ages and health types; it does not discriminate and those affected can often […]
Adrian Boulding: Drawdown investment pathways deserve another look
As part of its retirement outcomes review, the FCA has been looking at non-advised income drawdown policies; specifically, the fact too many people are leaving their savings in cash regardless of how long they intend to keep the money there for. The regulator wants customers to set out their plans for the five years ahead. […]
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