Regulation

Leading product providers have revealed plans to increase their of direct business operations as they expect up to 10% of advisers to leave the industry due to RDR, according to confidential discussions with researchers.

Banks must stop cross-subsidising products to claim some of them are free, a Financial Services Authority (FSA) director has said.

DIFs have been nudged back under the regulatory spotlight following a new conflict-of-interest warning last week, so what should advisers be looking out for?

With the Retail Distribution Review on the horizon, portal Avelo is gearing up for an aggressive growth phase, writes AT8 Group's Mark Loosmore...

Gill Cardy has plans for the IFA Centre, the trade body she set up earlier this year, and first among them is to find out about her prospective members, she tells Alasdair Pal…

Less than 5% of independent financial advisers (IFAs) will leave the industry after retail distribution review (RDR) implementation, although an increasing number are worried about profitability, a survey suggests.

A Financial Policy Committee member has branded lobbying tactics by banks against tighter financial regulation as "intellectually dishonest and potentially damaging".

Friends Life will widen its annuity product range and ramp up its consumer marketing next year in a bid to avoid losing its existing savers, and to capture more when it becomes an open market option (OMO) provider.

The Financial Services Authority's (FSA) failure to clamp down on poor financial advice in banks and promote independent alternatives shows it is ‘hostile to consumers', it has been claimed.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has hinted at higher levies for the industry as a result of another spike in payment protection insurance (PPI) claims.