A Practitioner's Guide to The FSA Regulation of Designated Investment Business

'This third edition of "A Practitioner's Guide to the FSA Regulation of Designated Investment Business" is published hard on the heels of the implementation of MiFID. MiFID represents the biggest legislative step towards a single market for financial services across the EU since the arrival of the Investment Services Directive almost 15 years ago. As a result the entire Guide has been fully reviewed and updated to reflect the new regime' - Tim Cornick, Macfarlanes. "A Practitioner's Guide to The FSA Regulation of Designated Investment Business" deals with the specific issues that are relevant to regulated firms on a daily basis. It analyses the investments that are regulated, considers the impact of the Conduct of Business Rules and looks at the Client Asset regime and related rules as well as the special cases of trustee firms, occupational pension schemes and collective investment schemes. This third edition takes into account all the changes affecting designated investment business since the last edition was published - and most significantly the impact of MiFID, which was implemented in November 2007.
MiFID has had wide ranging implications for the scope of regulated activities, and will have significant impact on the conduct of business, best execution, and financial promotion. Furthermore the implementation of UCITS III, and developments in the regulation of derivatives, mortgages, SIPPs and other types of product, have all been taken into account in this substantially revised edition.