Self-Regulating Organisation which was responsible for authorising and policing independent financial advisers and other firms marketing financial products and services. It has now been absorbed into the Financial Services Authority under the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
(PIA) Regulatory organisation which replaced FIMBRA and LAUTRO and some functions of IMRO. It will be replaced by the FSA when it receives its full powers at N2 date.
Regulatory organisation which took over from FIMBRA and LAUTRO and, in part, IMRO. Its duties will be replaced by a single regulator, the Financial Services Authority, early in the 21st Century.
A body that until 2001 regulated independent financial advisers and anyone marketing retail investment products to the general public. Subsumed by the Financial Services Authority.
The PIA regulates the way in which some financial products are marketed, promoted and sold.
A Self-Regulating Organisation (SRO) set up under the Securities and Investment Board (SIB) with responsibility for regulating retail financial services.
The former main regulator of the retail financial services industry, reposnsilble for authorising and policing independent financial advisers and other firms marketing financial products and services. It has now been subsumed into the Financial Services Authority under the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
SRO created in 1994 to focus on the needs of retail investors. It has now taken over the role of FIMBRA and LAUTRO whose members have applied to join PIA.
This was the organisation that dealt with the rules on how firms can advertise and sell financial products, such as pensions. This is now the responsibility of the Financial Services Authority.
The self-regulating organisation with responsibility for those marketing packaged investment products.
