After months of campaigning, tonight is the eagerly awaited RDR debate in the House of Commons. But should you bother watching?

On the coldest night of the year and with London at a standstill, MPs spent three hours debating (or agreeing) on the RDR. Missed the debate? See our minute by minute blog...

Before the last raft of papers was published by the FSA last week, I think the industry had a fair grasp of what ‘independence’ would mean post-RDR.

Clarkson Hill has requested a temporary suspension of its shares on AIM, pending clarification of the national IFA's regulatory position.

Many would find it hard to sympathize with mortgage lenders, but it’s easy to see why the FSA’s CP10/28 might not be much to their taste.

The FTSE 100 fell almost 1% this afternoon, reversing early morning gains, due to rising political uncertainty in Ireland.

Nearly 400 N&P customers with Keydata investments taken out in 2006-7 will pass on their cases to the Financial Ombudsman Service in the next fortnight in a bid to have their complaints addressed.

As Ireland's fiscal situation worsens and it prepares to accept an EU bailout, M&G’s Richard Woolnough ponders solutions to the country's crisis.

IRELAND IN NEED

Hargreaves Lansdown has questioned whether cuts to fund charges post RDR will be as widespread as the FSA forecast in its recent Platform Consultation paper, as providers struggle to cope with IFA exits from the market.