Tag: mini-bond marketing ban

Sheldon Mills, Interim Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA commented: We’ve today confirmed our proposals to make the speculative mini-bond ban permanent and extend its scope. These products are high risk and are often designed to be hard to understand. Consumers should always be wary of any investment promising high returns while…

The mini-bond ban will apply to the most complex and opaque deals where the raised funds are lent to a third party, to buy or acquire investments or to buy or fund the construction of property. There are exemptions such as regularly traded listed bonds, companies which raise funds for their own commercial or industrial…