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15 December 2023

Advice Guidance Boundary Review: Early thinking on how to fix the advice gap

10 February 2014

UK: Retail product distribution payments under the FCA spotlight - finalised guidance on inducements and conflicts of interest

The FCA has set an uncompromising compliance standard for what it sees as unacceptable payments from product providers to advisors in the retail …

03 May 2013

FCA confirms bans on payments to platforms and cash rebates

The FCA has published its policy statement and final rules which confirm that it will ban (i) payments from product providers to platforms, and (ii) …

25 March 2013

UK: Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s Risk Outlook and Business Plan for 2013 published

The FCA's Risk Outlook (FCA RO) has been published today, setting out the regulator's current thinking on conduct in financial markets by …

30 July 2012

PRIPs: Proposed Regulation on pre-sale disclosures for Packaged Retail Investment Products – interaction with RDR and MiFID II

The European Commission has now published its final proposal for a Regulation on mandatory pre-sale disclosures for Packaged Retail Investment Products …

29 March 2012

MiFID II: a greater step away from the RDR?

Key recommendations by the Rapporteur on the investor protection elements of the proposed MiFID II Directive, contain some potentially significant …

09 November 2011

Treasury Select Committee and FSA disagree over timing of RDR implementation

The Treasury Select Committee ("the Committee") published a report on its inquiry into the Retail Distribution Review ("RDR") on Saturday, and recommends …

02 November 2011

Consultation on the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive: Investment advice and the FSA's Retail Distribution Review

The European Commission published its consultation (the "Consultation") on the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ("MiFID") in …

02 November 2011

European reforms to regulation of packaged retail investment products

The European Commission has recently published its long-awaited proposals on the regulation of Packaged Retail Investment Products (PRIPs).  The aim …

02 November 2011

FSA confirms professionalism aspects of RDR

The FSA has published its final rules on professionalism in the context of delivering the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in policy statement …