FSCS

Good afternoon readers - below are five key articles from this week's IFAonline.co.uk...

Home secretary Theresa May has written to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme about its decision to compensate some Lehman-backed NDFA structured product investors but not others.

The Financial Services Authority is hiring a new chairman of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme - on a yearly salary of £75,000 for two days work a week.

Bondholders owed £2.5bn following the Icelandic banking crisis have begun a legal challenge against the 'priority status' given to local authorities and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to get their money back from Landsbanki.

An adviser has spoken of his anger and confusion after an adjudicator from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ruled he had given unsuitable advice to clients on insolvent investment firm Keydata - even though the FSA had previously deemed his recommendation...

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Retirement Planner talks to Martin Tilley about the potential increase in provider consolidation and what this means for the SIPP industry.

Osborne Clarke head of regulatory services, Tim Boyce, on why clear communication with clients will be more important than ever following the FSA's platforms policy paper.

Keydata founder Stewart Ford has put together a £91m loan facility offer for Lifemark, which, if accepted, he claims would repay the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and investors in full.

It may be a small sovereign state compared with Italy and Spain, but fears that Cyprus may be the next EU member state to seek a bailout show no signs of diminishing.