All Articles in Financial services

In 2007 the Financial Services Authority is looking to dump the current obligation to supply a ‘Key features document’ to all prospective buyers of life policies, personal pensions and shares…

Whilst the European Commission was announcing a delayed implementation date for the EU Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments and publishing a working paper bristling with more marketing controls, the…

B&Q hauled competitor Homebase in front of the Advertising Standards Authority for alleged breach of consumer credit ad regulations. These state that including an ‘incentive’ in your ads to take…

If marketing agencies recommend insurance products to their clients, be it film shoot cover, death and disgrace, over-redemption or prize indemnity, they might well be breaking the law. Charles O’Reilly,…

No, hairdressing is not about to be regulated by the Financial Services Authority. This relates to cases where mortgage and insurance product providers outsource marketing functions, for example to contact…

In December 2004 it was clear to the FSA that significant numbers of insurance businesses who had applied for authorisation under the new regime effective 14/1/05 would not get it…