Overview

Stephenson Harwood's regular round-up of news, speeches and publications on financial services regulation and enforcement in the UK.

Content includes:

- The Alternative Investment Management Association updates Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive timeline
- The Financial Ombudsman Service sets out its approach to hardship cases in context of unauthorised overdraft charges complaints
- The Council of Mortage Lenders publishes its submission to the FSA’s mortgage market review
- The Payments Council publishes industry guidance for the Payment Services Regulations
- The European Council of Economics and Finance Ministers adopts conclusions on fiscal exit strategy
- The FSA publishes a speech by Dan Waters on the European regulatory agenda for hedge funds
- The FSA unveils tough measures to protect PPI consumers
- The FSA publishes policy statement on UK liquidity regulation
- The FSA publishes first Solvency II IMAP update
- The FSA sets out major reforms for the mortgage market
- Four firms give the Office of Fair Trading undertakings about selling gym membership
- The FSA bans East London mortgage broker for misleading lenders
- The Office of Fair Trading announces criminal charges in suspected pyramid scheme case


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