* April 25 – The Federal Security Agency ( FSA ) is founded in the USA, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph. D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot ( born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.

It is regulated by the Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA ( born 29 October 1925 ) is an English actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television.

Professor Michael Antony ' Mick ' Aston, FSA ( born 1 July 1946 ) is a prominent English archaeologist.

The Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) is a quasi-judicial body responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom.

The transition is expected to be completed by 2012 and existing FSA chief executive Hector Sants will continue in this role and will oversee the process.

The Financial Capability division of the FSA broke away from the organisation in 2010, and is now known as The Money Advice Service.

This principle is designed to guard against unnecessary intrusion by the FSA into firms ’ business and requires it to hold senior management responsible for risk management and controls within firms.

The primary delivery mechanism of financial services to retail customers is via apprioximately 30, 000 Independent Financial Advisers ( IFAs ) who are authorised and regulated by the FSA.

The FSA said " It is for the bank, building society or credit card company to show that the transaction was made by you, and there was no breakdown in procedures or technical difficulty " before refusing liability.

The FSA is not accountable to Treasury Ministers or to Parliament, as confirmed by Hector Sants at a Treasury Select Committee meeting on 9 March 2011.

HM Treasury decides upon the scope of activities that should be regulated, but it is for the FSA to decide what shape the regulatory regime should take in relation to any particular activities.

The FSA is governed by a Board appointed by HM Treasury.

It is reported that in order to prevent such a situation occurring again, the FSA is considering allowing a bank to delay revealing to the public when it gets into financial difficulties.

The FSA is not legally able to circumvent statute yet hides behind secret legal opinion regarding its summary removal of practitioners legal rights in respect of their ability to use a longstop defence against stale claims.

FSA regulation is also often regarded as reactive rather than proactive.

Although one of the prime responsibilities of the FSA is to protect consumers, The FSA has been active in trying to ensure companies ' anonymity when they have been involved in misselling activity, preferring to side with the companies that have been found guilty rather than consumers.

This is most obviously seen in the case known as the LAUTRO 19, where the FSA identified 19 insurers which had breached their contractual warranties by using incorrect charges to calculate the premiums for mortgage endowment policies.

The FSA has denied the claims-" This is not whistleblowing, it is green ink " a spokesman said.

For example, it has been reported that Australia's Commonwealth Bank is measured as having 7. 6 % Tier 1 capital under the rules of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, but this would be measured as 10. 1 % if the bank was under the jurisdiction of the FSA.

Since 14 January 2005 The FSA ( Financial Services Authority ) have also been regulating the Motor Industry, applicable when insurance products have been sold in conjunction with the vehicle purchase.

There have also been some questions raised about the competence of FSA staff.

The FSA also employed several other photojournalists to document the depression.

Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA ( 27 July 1938-14 June 2007 ) was an influential English archaeologist, noted for being the Professor Emeritus of Comparative Archaeology and also the former Executive Director of University College London's Institute of Archaeology.

Stryker also made sure that mainstream publications had access to FSA photographs.

A flexible spending account ( FSA ), also known as a flexible spending arrangement, is one of a number of tax-advantaged financial accounts that can be set up through a cafeteria plan of an employer in the United States.

The most common type of flexible spending account, the medical expense FSA ( also medical FSA or health FSA ), is similar to a health savings account ( HSA ) or a health reimbursement account ( HRA ).

Paper forms or an FSA debit card, also known as a Flexcard, may be used to access the account funds.

In cases where an employee has a HDHP with a HSA, they are eligible for a Limited Expense FSA ( LEX ) ( also called Limited Purpose FSA ).

The review found that-with hindsight-there had been some " deficiencies " on the part of FSA in the discharge of their regulatory responsibilities, but also stated that " the die had been cast " by the time the FSA had assumed regulatory responsibility for the Society in relation to those who had already invested in Equitable.

We also work with other stakeholders including consumer representative groups, the European Commission and the FSA.

In addition to doing ethnographic research with Todd in California, Sonkin also documented the African American community of the town of Gee's Bend, Alabama, where other Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) work was being carried out.

However, subsequent case law ( Durant vs. FSA ) has limited the scope of the protection provided by this law, and not all CCTV systems are currently regulated.

The FSA has provided guidance for companies that wish to submit a simplified novel food application.

The program is designed to meet requirements such as those from the Financial Services Authority ( FSA ), and has sample configurations provided for both the FSA and the Council of Mortgage Lenders ( CML ) reporting environments.

The British Army did not purchase the Blindfire system until 1979, entering service with Rapier " Field Standard A " ( FSA ).

In 2004-05 the FSA was actively involved in crackdowns against financial advice firms who were involved in the selling of split-cap investment trusts and precipice bonds, with some success in restoring public confidence ..

In line with the other regulators, the FSA had failed intellectually by focusing too much on processes and procedures rather than looking at the bigger economic picture.

The Prime Minister's criticisms were viewed as particularly surprising since the FSA's brand of light-touch financial regulation has typically been popular with banks and financial institutions in comparison with the more prescriptive rules-based regulation employed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and by other European regulators ; by contrast, most critiques of the FSA accuse it of instigating a regulatory " race to the bottom " aimed at attracting foreign companies at the expense of consumer protection.

The company, along with Prodea and FSA, began to develop a suborbital space transportation system, called Explorer.

In 2006, the Wine Standards Board merged with the FSA to take over responsibility for enforcing the EU wine regime in the UK.

Formerly an executive agency of the FSA, the Meat Hygiene Service merged with the FSA in April 2010 to form a new operations group.

As a member of the FSA group, Shahn roamed and documented the American south together with his colleagues Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.

The ASCS was, as the FSA is now, primarily tasked with the implementation of farm conservation and regulation laws around the country.

It is rumoured that the FSA is particularly concerned that the Co-operative bank is still behind schedule in the integration of its IT systems with those of the Britannia Building Society, despite the fact that the merger took place in 2009.

In 1994, Jodi Shelton, along with a half a dozen CEOs of fabless companies, established the Fabless Semiconductor Association ( FSA ) to promote the fabless business-model globally.

Eventually, the FSA became the global voice for the fabless ecosystem, with over 500 corporate members in 25 countries.

The organizational transition reflected the role FSA had played as a global organization that collaborated with other organizations to co-host international events.

When FSA was established in 1994, there were only three fabless companies — Cirrus Logic, Adaptec, and Xilinx — each with revenues in excess of $ 250 million.

Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl MA, DLitt, PhD, FSA, HonFSA Scot ( born September 24, 1926 ) is a British archaeologist most well known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them.

Also, one cannot have a health care FSA if he or she has a High Deductible Health Plan ( HDHP ) with a Health Savings Account ( HSA ).