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The post-2012 regime for continuing professional development (CPD) is the "most transformational" aspect of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) managing director Ruth Martin.

Paul Broadhead of the Building Society Association lays out his plan to revive the mortgage market to Paul Robertson.

The protection market is shrinking and becoming more concentrated in the hands of a few providers, according to figures from the FSA.

The FSA has fined a Canadian trading platform £8m for serious market abuse but the firm has referred the matter to the Upper Tribunal.

The FSA noted a jump in advised sales of personal pensions in 2010/11 compared with the previous year, and said this could reflect pension switching, a practice it pointed out some firms had failed to carry out appropriately in the past.

Fidelity FundsNetwork is disclosing its fund manager fees as it looks to create a more transparent market and prove its pricing policy is free from commercial bias.

The FSA is set to publish its first "health alert" shortly to warn about risky financial products, in a bid to halt the stream of mis-selling scandals.

Defaqto has warned that the public should not be turned off protection products following the fall out of the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal.

Luxembourg-based special purpose vehicle ARM Asset Backed Securities - which marketed offshore 'death bonds' to UK investors - has been refused authorisation by its home regulator, meaning all payments have been suspended.

A former mortgage broker named by Crimestoppers as one of the UK's ten most wanted fraudsters has been arrested.