All Articles in Financial services

This time the penalty was £165,000 for 2,000,000 newspaper inserts and 236,000 mailings misleadingly promoting high income and precipice bonds.   Topic: Financial services Who: The Financial Services Authority and Chase de Vere…

The Government has just published its consultation paper on radical reforms to the UK’s consumer credit laws. The proposals include scrapping the much-criticised credit ad regulations, but will the suggested…

The Financial Services Authority is due to start regulating most mortgage advertising and selling on 31st October 2004. We report on the new “Mortgage Conduct and Business Rules” and helpful…

In an effort to placate the Commons Treasury select committee in advance of the DTI’s much threatened ‘radical review’ of UK consumer credit laws, UK credit card providers have come…

When Marks & Spencer Financial Services mailed 2.6 million of its storecard holders with a replacement credit card, it thought it was well within legal controls on posting ‘credit tokens’.…

As the FSA controls the advertising for more and more financial products and its rules and guidelines burgeon, advertisers are becoming increasingly frustrated at its inability to offer any significant…

In January 2005, the selling of mortgages and general insurance will be firmly within the remit of the Financial Services Authority. The FSA is developing its new regulatory regime for…

The Financial Services Authority is bound by law to process complaints about ‘financial promotions’ advertising that comes within its remit under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. For the…