The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is looking at bringing back reporting on a cash-basis for advisory firms in their Retail Mediation Activities Returns (RMAR), its head of savings, investments and distribution said today.
An adviser has complained to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) following an hour-long phone conversation about Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) reporting that led to an agreement over accounting rules that was not "entirely logical".
Legacy commission still accounted for more than half of adviser income at end of March, according to research released today.
Time spent completing the regulator's retail mediation activities return (RMAR) forms is costing the industry millions, according to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers(APFA).
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today banned the co-founder of Cru Investment Management Stephen Danner from working in regulated financial services. As the poisoned chalice of Arch Cru continues to take victims, IFAonline looks at where he...
A major section of the new Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) form has been branded "unworkable".
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has cancelled an adviser's Part IV permissions for his failure to submit a Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) for 2011.
The FSA today published its new data reporting rules for Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) forms. Here is IFAonline's breakdown of the changes you need to know.
The FSA says proposals to collect extra sales data from advice firms are not part of wider plans to effectively control how much they charge for their services.