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Annuity firms must do more to ensure the fair treatment of pension customers, an FSA review into the Open Market Option (OMO) says.

Trigold has launched Case Manager, a new software that will help mortgage advisers manage their client files.

The protection limit for savers is set to be raised to £50,000 under proposals due to be announced by the Government today, The Telegraph reports.

Just 13pc of assessed firms met the FSA's March deadline for TCF, the regulator revealed today in its latest update.

The FSA has only an ‘acceptable' score in the areas of mortgage regulation and regulation of small firms for the last financial year, according to the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) Annual Report .

Trigold has partnered with LeadPoint to allow brokers to source new business directly through their Trigold system.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has written to the Government to ask its views on a possible reform of the state safety net for borrowers.

Earlier this year Dunstan Thomas ran two parallel surveys based on the impact of wrap services. The first focused on providers and administrator firms and the second on financial adviser community. Chris Read, summarises the key findings.

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