The first products to be developed as part of a government drive to introduce 'simple' financial products with standardised features should be deposit savings and life and income protection (IP) insurance products, Treasury financial secretary Mark Hoban...

FSA chief executive Hector Sants was forced to defend the regulator's record on Iran after senior US officials urged it to take action against London-based Iranian banks suspected of financing nuclear programmes, cables released by WikiLeaks show.

Aegon-owned national IFA Positive Solutions, which has previously complained of the 'underhand' recruitment tactics used by its rivals, lost about 400 partners in 2010, CEO Jim Reeve says.

Richard Philbin, chief investment officer (CIO) of Axa Architas, is leaving the company at the end of the year to be replaced by deputy CIO Caspar Rock.

New AIFA boss Stephen Gay says firms should not risk their businesses banking on late changes to the RDR and explains why fighting fire with fire usually leads to failure.

Aegon-owned national IFA Positive Solutions is piloting a time recording tool to help partners translate time spent with clients into cost.

A past business review carried out by Aegon-owned national IFA Positive Solutions identified ‘isolated' cases of poor advice but no systemic mis-selling issues, the company says.

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The government will issue a call for evidence on early access to pension funds later this month, Mark Hoban has announced.

Gartmore has been censured and fined $1.35m by the SEC for breaking its short-selling rules.