PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the administrator of Keydata Investment Services, has announced today that it has had to freeze some interest payments and some redemption rights to anyone that owns certain Keydata products.

We believe that, in some instances, Griffiths McAlister Insurance Brokers Limited may not have passed customer premiums on to the insurer. Any customer in this position may not have valid insurance cover in place.

We have announced a new way for building societies to raise additional money, if they choose, to help support their businesses as banks already can.

We have obtained an injunction against this firm as they may have been operating an investment scheme called the 'Currency Plan' without our authorisation. We are currently analysing the information we have received so far from investors, and the investigation continues.

These firms have been cold calling people promoting shares in UK registered companies Afterwire PLC, CosmoSeis PLC and Uranium308 Resources PLC. They are not authorised to provide financial services in the UK. If you have been offered shares by these companies please contact us.

Bank of England statement on Dunfermline’s savings, mortgage and loan businesses transferring to Nationwide.

We are concerned that insurance policies taken out through Bridgewater House UK Limited may lapse due to non-payment of premiums, and that customers may not be aware that they no longer have valid insurance cover in place.

We believe that UEIFAS may have cashed in investment products taken out on behalf of its clients, without its clients’ knowledge or consent, and failed to return those funds to clients. It may have also failed to pass funds transferred to it by clients for investment purposes on to the relevant investment provider.

Customers who took out a mortgage, or are in the process or taking out a mortgage, through The Financial Associate (TFA) Limited (based in Sidcup) should check that the mortgage advance is for the amount that they applied for in their original mortgage application. They should also check whether they have received policy statements or correspondence from life insurance companies about life cover they don’t remember applying for.

Customers should check they have valid cover in place because A Razzaq Insurance Brokers, which operates in the West Midlands, did not always pass on premiums.

The government announced measures to help banks lend money to each other, to customers and to businesses.

The FSA has responded to the Government’s paper setting out its response to the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s report into the regulation of Equitable Life.

If you arranged your mortgage, remortgage, insurance or investment through Pure Money (based in Rhyl, Clwyd) we strongly advise you to contact us.

London Scottish Bank has been placed in administration and can no longer accept deposits. All eligible retail customers will be protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Synergys is no longer permitted to advise on or arrange insurance. Customers should check they have valid cover in place because Synergys did not always pass on premiums.

The boards of Skipton and Scarborough building societies have announced their intention to merge for commercial reasons.

We have changed our rules that state how firms can use our logo and the statements they make to describe the nature of their regulatory relationship with us.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme will be writing to savers in Icesave in about 10 days with details of how you are going to get your money back.

We have lodged a petition in the High Court for the winding up of Cameron Farley Limited, based in Edinburgh, who we believe has accepted deposits without FSA authorisation.

The boards of The Yorkshire and The Barnsley building societies have announced their intention to merge for commercial reasons.

The government has announced it is going to buy newly issued shares in RBS and also HBOS and Lloyds TSB when their merger is complete, to provide these banks with more funds to run their businesses.

Kaupthing's Edge savings business has been transferred to ING Direct to protect your money.

The UK branch of Icelandic bank, Landsbanki, which includes Icesave, has been declared in default in the UK. So in the interests of consumer protection we have triggered the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to safeguard retail customer savings held in Icesave.

Heritable Bank’s savings business has been transferred to ING Direct to protect your money.

We have cancelled the registration of Ethnic Mutual Limited with effect from 18 September 2008. Ethnic Mutual was an exempt charity registered with us as an Industrial and Provident Society.

Government statement on Abbey National plc buying Bradford & Bingley’s savings business and the mortgage and loans business being placed into temporary public ownership.

We have issued a statement regarding the proposed Lloyds TSB and HBOS bank merger.

Today, the boards of Nationwide, The Derbyshire and The Cheshire have announced their intentions to merge. The decisions behind these commercial transactions have been outlined today by the three societies.

We are aware of at least ten ‘recovery rooms’ who are targeting investors who bought shares through Pacific Continental Securities (UK) Ltd. 'Recovery rooms' are firms that cold call investors and offer to buy their shares or put them in touch with another buyer – for a fee.

Investors who have dealt with Treadstone or Mr Shepherd should contact us as there is a possibility of compensation. The High Court has declared that Mr Shepherd and Treadstone broke the law – effectively by arranging share deals in Tramigo Oy Limited without authorisation.

Peter Richard Hilder, who traded from Weston-super-Mare as Savings Assured Mortgages, is no longer allowed to advise on or arrange mortgages or general insurance.

Following agreement between Aviva and the Policyholder Advocate, Clare Spottiswoode, we confirmed that Aviva’s £1bn offer for the company’s inherited estate is fair in terms of the payment being received by the policyholder, relative to the return being made to the shareholder, and the treatment of policyholders who wish to vote no.

Diamond has stopped trading and is in the process of appointing an administrator or liquidator. Mortgage and general insurance customers should check they have valid cover in place.

Customers should check they have valid cover in place because Ideal did not always pass on premiums and sometimes cancelled policies without notice.

Asher Miller FCA, of David Rubin & Partners, has been appointed as liquidator to Square Mile Securities following a creditors' meeting on Friday 28 March 2008.

We believe general insurance premiums were not always passed on to insurers, so some customers of these firms (or their appointed representatives) may not have valid cover in place.

The sale of Orpery Limited's property portfolio will complete soon, but the process for repaying monies to investors may still take a long time.

We have suspended the registration of Ethnic Mutual Limited for three months, effective 14 March 2008. Ethnic Mutual is an exempt charity registered with us as an Industrial and Provident Society.

Customers persuaded by boiler rooms to invest £1.25m in two North America-based companies are entitled to a rare 90% refund after an investigation and swift action by the FSA and our Canadian counterparts.

The Insolvency Service is now dealing with the financial affairs of Henry Ofili and John Adams, who may have traded as Adams & Adams Investment Services. This is an update to our previous warning articles.

The Treasury, following consultation with the Bank of England and the FSA, has decided to bring forward legislation that will enable Northern Rock to be brought into temporary public ownership.

Flett Sinclair Insurance Brokers and Petsure, both from Ilford, Essex have been stopped from trading. The director of both companies, Mr David Holland, is now banned from acting as an insurance broker.

Streetcred, a credit union based in Rochdale, has closed for business and can no longer trade. This means it cannot accept any more deposits, cannot make any new loans and cannot repay deposits to its members.

Victoria Mortgage Funding Ltd, based in London SE1, went into administration on 10 September 2007. KPMG have been appointed as Administrators.

Moreland, which traded from Whitstable, Kent, has stopped trading and is now in liquidation.

If you bought insurance through David Brown Insurance, trading from offices in Derby, your cover may no longer be valid.

The FSA has obtained restraint and freezing orders against Christian Orpin (trading as PDS Business Finance), Michael Vickery and Orpery Limited.

DC & Co, which traded from Clifton, Bristol, has stopped trading and is now in liquidation.

Damak Group (a firm registered in St Lucia) is under police investigation.