regulation
Will the City of London break its social media gagging order?
As is so often the case in social media, we can only predict what will happen in the UK by glancing at our adventurous cousins in the US.
There, the financial services sector has just bravely …
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The unsociable FSA’s Dr Pepper moment
The Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) latest guidance (this link downloads a PDF of the guidance, by the way) on the application of social web tools by regulated businesses was issued a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday, I was given the chance to offer my view as part of …
FSA guidance on social web: misguided, ill-judged and ambiguous
Advice issued by the FSA on the use of the social web by regulated businesses is misguided, ill-judged and ambiguous - it risks deterring businesses, like independent financial advice practices, from adopting the medium to improve client engagement and reduce costs.
The FSA guidance suggests ’applying the rules to financial promotions …
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