Protection

Zurich plans to make 90 redundancies from its UK life business as part of cost cutting measures in light of the challenging economic environment.

Barclays Stockbrokers has re-launched its execution-only service to intermediaries with an enhanced adviser support team.

Financial advisers will pay a lower fee to fund the Financial Services Authority (FSA) than initially thought after arrangements for 2012/13 were finalised.

The man responsible for HSBC's UK retail and commercial banking business has been named as the next chairman of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel (FSPP).

PERSUASIVE

Aegon is to delist from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) next month as the benefit does not justify the cost, the insurer has announced.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a self-appointed insurance broking director from performing regulated functions after he "misled" the regulator and acted dishonestly.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged the Money Advice Service (MAS) to expand its offerings and ‘push regulatory boundaries' in order to help to close the advice gap.

Insurer Prudential is set to name Paul Manduca as its next chairman after a five-month search to replace Harvey McGrath, the Telegraph reports.

A number of large insurers face being killed off by the onset of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) as they are "running out of proposition", a director at Ernst & Young has said.