There seem to be a lot of areas where the UK financial services industry is all too keen to hop over the Pond and see what our American cousins have been doing.

The FSA plans to publish a separate consultation paper on how platforms should disclose their charging structures, including fund manager rebates, on top of its second consultation document in February.

After months of procrastination and frantic lobbying behind the scenes, the FSA has finally unveiled its latest thinking on platforms.

The FSA has outlined plans to ensure key messages about the service mortgages intermediaries offer and their charging structures are clearly given to clients, including oral disclosures for some advice streams.

The FSA is planning to extend the 'restricted' and 'independent' labels to mortgage intermediaries.

The BSA has called on the government to step in urgently to debate the future of the mortgage market.

Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Stephen Lansdown, who last month pocketed £58m after selling a 3% stake in the firm, says he would be a saver if it wasn't for his commitments as owner of Bristol City football club.

OPM Fund Management has been running paper versions of a nine-strong risk-rated model portfolio range, which it hopes to begin rolling out to advisers in the first half of 2011.

Supervision of markets should be separated from consumer protection following the split up of the FSA in 2012, urges the Financial Reporting Council.

Sesame Bankhall's MD of distribution is urging the FSA to back down on its decision not to introduce a 15-year long-stop on complaints, or face losing much needed corporate investment into the shrinking IFA sector.