Impending regulation can no longer be ignored

At the start of the year, the impending regulatory regime due to be imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) must have seemed a very long way away, but now, like Christmas, it is looming large and is no longer something that can be avoided and left until later.

The Insurance Age readers poll on our newly-launched website, shows that 82% of you will be registering directly with the FSA; 8% will apply through the appointed representative route; 6% would cease trading and 4% of you still