The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is the independent watchdog set up by government under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to regulate financial services in the UK, and protect the rights of retail customers. The FSA's aims are to maintain efficient, orderly and clean financial markets and help customers get a fair deal. Their funding comes from levies on the firms they regulate.
Pre-N2 items:
Release List of Rules and Regulations
List of Authorised Credit Institutions
Previous Regulators: IMRO; PIA; SFA; FIMBRA; LAUTRO
The organisations which will make up the FSA
The FSA - an Outline: Paper published on 28 October 1997
On 28 October 1997 the Securities and Investments Board (SIB) changed its name to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA continues to exercise all the functions which the SIB had under the Financial Services Act 1986 and continued to be the designated agency under that Act until midnight on 30 November 2001 (N2) when the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 came fully into operation.
All references to the SIB should now be read as references to the FSA.
On 20 October 1997 the Board made a rule which allows authorised persons to refer to the SIB or the FSA on their stationery or any other document.