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Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.

The FSA is unlikely to pursue plans to collect transactional data on advisory businesses from product providers, platforms and third party distributors via product sales data (PSD), the regulator suggested today.

The FSA may use the extra data it plans to collect from adviser firms to control the price of advice post-2012, Alan Lakey says.

Why efficient data management is vital for effective decision making

Markit, the financial information services group and index provider, has created the ETF Encyclopaedia, offering information on exchange-traded products (ETPs) around the world.

London-based lender Redstone Mortgages has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after personal information relating to 15,333 accounts was emailed to a member of the public.

The FSA has fined Barclays almost £2.5m for failing to provide accurate reports to the regulator.

HSBC subsidiaries have been fined a total of £3m for failing to protect their customers' personal data.

A laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust members has been stolen from software provider NorthgateArinso.

Reita, the trade body representing REITS and other commercial property investments, is to make data on net asset values (NAV) available to the public.