Company: Financial Services Authority

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Goal is to improve business capability and effectiveness

Britain’s Financial Services Authority says it has seen some improvement in financial firms’ treatment of retail customers, but there is much more to do.Speaking to bankers at a conference in London Wednesday , Oliver Page, the FSA’s director of major retail groups, drove home the message that firms had more to do to implement its […]

  • By: IE Staff
  • February 16, 2005 February 16, 2005
  • 10:51

U.K. regulator to layout priorities

FSA concerned about the treatment of consumers

Says small and medium-sized firms are less well prepared

FSA outlines which services may not be paid for from commissions

  • By: IE Staff
  • November 10, 2004 November 10, 2004
  • 10:40

New rules effective April 2005

Salespeople not required to hold formal financial planning qualifications to sell basic products

Typical victim is a middle-aged professional

Huge task ahead to educate investors says FSA chairman