The FSA is inviting compliance consultants, who provide services to small regulated firms, to attend one of its interactive Treating Customers Fairly seminars .

A helpline offering free round-the-clock counselling support to individual protection customers has been launched by Aegon Scottish Equitable.

Abbey has announced it will launch a range of low fee mortgage deals for borrowers with large deposits.

A facility enabling advisers to put a protection case 'on-risk' once acceptance terms have been offered is one of a number of changes progress from Royal Liver is making to its online application process.

Northern Rock has completed its redundancy talks with staff and confirmed 1,300 jobs have been cut.

Pioneer Investments, Ireland's largest asset management company, has launched an institutional business as part of the company's ongoing growth strategy.

Organised mortgage fraudsters cost troubled mortgage lender Bradford and Bingley (B&B) £18m in the first six months of the year, contributing to a £26.7m loss for the bank.

Aegon will carefully monitor the commission being taken as part of its new flexible adviser remuneration option for annuities to ensure the offer is not abused.

A cash account offering advisers the "unprecedented" benefit of earning commission on deposits and paying the highest rate of interest of any platform has been launched by Fidelity FundsNetwork.

The FTSE100 has consolidated its position above 5,600 in a positive Friday opening, currently 24.80 points (0.44%) higher to 5626.