Legal & General is to offer customers of Bradford & Bingley access to its investment and protection products in a deal that will also see some 200 B&B "wealth advisers" transfer over to L&G.

The Financial Ombudsman Service needs to show it understands how the industry has evolved and improved over recent years as its decisions show signs of retrospection, suggests the Association of IFAs.

Introducers passing on mortgage business leads will not be required to be regulated under the FSA regime in certain cases but all other types of regulated financial business will require introducers to hold FSA authorisation, according to guidance from...

Another IFA comment - following publication of the depolarisation menu - suggests some intermediaries welcome the move to introduce documents revealing the earnings from advice.

This latest comment from a fee-based IFA suggests consumers will be confused, rather than enlightened by the raft of FSA regulations hitting the financial services sector.

Financial intermediaries argue the FSA menu and the move towards fee-based doesn't fairly reflect the market that the Financial Services Authority regulates.

Most discussion about the "menu" has so far arisen from commission-based advisers, who will now have to reassess their working practices.

Emerging European and Mexican banks are looking attractive relative to the Asian region, which has y...