Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the government of Margaret Thatcher to regulate the financial services industry. [1] The Act used a mixture of governmental regulation and self-regulation, and created a Securities and Investments Board (SIB) presiding over various new self ...
Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment) Act 2019; Criminal Law Reform Act 2019; Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2019; Currency (Amendment) Act 2019; Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2019; Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Act 2019; Home Team Science and Technology Agency Act 2019
whether law changes should be made to improve consumer protection; the relevant developments of the EEC (European Economic Community) Gower produced his report and the Government adopted a number of his proposals in a white paper (Jan 1985). The Financial Services Act 1986 (FSAct) followed the white paper, receiving royal assent in November ...
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
They lost money when house prices and stocks fell. Under the Financial Services Act 1986 section 54 the Securities and Investments Board started the Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd, [1] where investors could be directly compensated for their losses, and ICS would try recoup the cost by suing the building societies on everyone’s behalf ...
Financial Services Act may refer to: Financial Services Act 1986, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; Financial Services Act 2010, ...
The Sale of Goods Act, [39] an English Act made applicable to Singapore by the Application of English Law Act, sets out legal rules relating to the sale and purchase of goods. The Women's Charter [ 40 ] sets out the law relating to marriage, divorce and separation, family violence, and the protection of women and girls.
Main entrance – 25 North Colonnade (Canary Wharf, London) – FSA building The Securities and Investments Board Ltd ("SIB") was incorporated on 7 June 1985 at the instigation of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was the sole member of the company and who delegated certain statutory regulatory powers to it under the then Financial Services Act 1986.