IFAonline is often tickled by some of the comments left by readers at the bottom of stories. But this one just HAD to be shared…

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been slapped with a £28.6m Office of Fair Trading (OFT) fine for breaching competition rules.

A controversial interim levy to cover the collapses last year of Keydata and two stockbrokers will be applied to the investment intermediation sub-class despite widespread opposition, the FSCS has confirmed.

Exhange traded fund (ETF) family iShares is launching its first roadshows for IFAs after the FSA last week published its final rules on adviser charging.

Banks have described as "a plus" an FSA decision not to mandate the wording they will need to use to describe their restricted offering to clients after 2012.

You'd think, wouldn't you, in a week of both the Budget and RDR, it'd be fairly easy to pick the most-read story on IFAonline? So get ready for a surprise…

How many RDR-related emails have you received? A lot we're guessing. So, here's a quick-fire definitive guide.

A defiant FSA today says it is confident the RDR will increase consumer access to financial advice despite revealing half of small firms had opposed its adviser charging proposals.

The FSA today set out its final rules on adviser charging and service labelling, as well as a discussion paper on platforms. So what do advisers make of it all?

Product providers will not be required to monitor the effect on their products of the levels of adviser charges deducted, the FSA confirms today.