An adviser threatened by the FSA for adding a complaints long-stop to his terms of business contracts says Hector Sants' pledge to consider reintroducing the rule was a 'sop' to advisers.

Bluefin Insurance Group has appointed AWD Chase De Vere's Robert Organ as chief financial officer.

Prosperity IFAs and Stockbrokers is in active discussions with several IFA firms about acquiring advisers as it looks to grow its numbers more than tenfold by 2013.

Skandia has urged investors against panic selling Japanese holdings in the wake of the country's devastating earthquake.

Nick Burns, managing director of Bluefin Corporate Consulting, has been promoted to chief executive of Bluefin Advisory Services following a management shake-up.

All platform rebates should be banned under a new remuneration structure subject to a separate timescale than RDR in order to improve consumer outcomes, according to the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP).

The number of advisers planning to move to a platform-based business in the run up to RDR has increased "significantly", suggests recent research.

Leading asset managers are hosting a series of regional seminars offering advisers insights into global investment opportunities.

The former chief executive of Singer & Friedlander, the City investment bank bought by Kaupthing, has called for the FSA to publish a report into the Icelandic banks' collapse.

A rise in UK interest rates over the next couple of months could derail the economic recovery, says a new report.