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Pro-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) financial advisers believe the emergence of higher-qualified practitioners will have a larger bearing on improving consumer outcomes than the ban on commission.

Roderic Rennison, director of consultancy The Ideas Lab, slices the move to fees into three manageable chunks.

Pensions minister Steve Webb will meet with industry representatives and the Pensions Regulator (TPR) today to urge a crackdown on pension transfer incentives.

A former broker has revealed the strategies used by land banking firms to sell strips of land to unwary investors.

A shift in focus by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) toward the biggest City banks in the wake of the financial crisis has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of risk assessments conducted into financial firms.

Five more days in the world of financial advice and every one of them was eventful…

Hector Sants has said the Prudential Regulation Authority's approach towards banking supervision will fundamentally differ from past practices as he set out a more "intensive" blueprint based on forward looking judgements.

Hector Sants, chief executive of the FSA, said the organisation's successor the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) will take a judgment-based rather than reactive approach to regulation.

The Prudential Regulatory Authority - the new regulator taking over the supervision of big UK financial institutions in 2013 - should be charged with investigating bank failures and making its findings public, Hector Sants has said.

One of the lead cases brought by Arch cru investors against Capita has been put on hold by FOS pending a decision on whether the ombudsman is the appropriate body to deal with the complaint.