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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned a former adviser to SLS Capital - the company whose bonds underpinned the failed Keydata investments - for giving the misleading impression that the SLS bonds were soundly backed assets.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said it no longer expects to raise an interim levy on investment advisers for the 2013/14 period.

Standard Life has put contingency plans in place to relocate its operations should Scotland vote for independence.

Royal London has appointed a new head of intermediary business and chief financial officer in a management reshuffle.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Forex Capital Markets and FXCM Securities (FXCM UK) £4m for allowing the US-based FXCM Group to withhold profits worth £6m that should have been passed on to the UK business' clients.

EU policymakers have agreed a deal on pay in the asset management industry which includes a requirement that fund managers be paid half of any bonuses in units of their own funds.

Financial advisers operating in Europe are less strictly regulated than their UK counterparts yet consumers are still afforded the same degree of protection, according to Zurich Life government affairs principal Matt Connell.

Client inertia is a powerful problem in financial services, according to L&G

Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Daniel Godfrey says we should "interrogate quite hard" the assertion that the price of fund management has dropped elsewhere in the world, but not in the UK.

Some advisers are taking a stand against the old saying that the customer is always right - and are making a case for firmly telling the client ‘no'.