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Advisory support group Tenet is to review the panel of platforms it recommends to IFAs following a warning from the Financial Service Authority about the use of platforms which permit rebates from providers to clients.

Chris Read gives his top tips for successful migration of clients' assets onto wrap platforms.

David Ferguson, CEO of Nucleus Financial Group, sees only good news in this week's platforms Policy Statement.

The FSA has said it will issue further guidance on legacy assets to clarify its existing rules.

Fidelity's Ed Dymott has slammed the FSA's "shambolic" handling of platform regulation and said the delay in platform charging rules until after 2013 will create an "RDR 2".

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is warning consumers about the risks of investing in carbon credit schemes.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the Transaction Reporting System (TRS) to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for £15m.

The trade body for independent advisers has called on the FSA to use the extra two years it has permitted for firms to meet its capital rules to reconsider their impact on small businesses.

Hargreaves Lansdown shares fell sharply in early trading today after the FSA said in yesterday's platform paper it wants to ban payments from fund managers to platforms and cash rebates to consumers.

When the FSA's eagerly anticipated and much delayed platform policy paper finally dropped into our inboxes it provided yet another twist to the ongoing rebate debate.