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Firms which apply to operate personal pension schemes will be given ‘interim permission', even if their application has not been approved when regulations come into force.

The Institute of Financial Services (ifs) has attacked the government's strategy for introducing personal finance education into the curriculum.

The Financial Services Authority has announced it will not make rules about the disclosure of commission arrangements for retail funds.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (Aifa) will not lobby the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to use excess income to reduce IFA fees, despite disliking what the regulator has done.

Small and medium-sized mortgage firms are still not meeting the Financial Services Authority's disclosure standards.

A BIG disappointment looms for 2.4m with-profits policyholders in Standard Life when the company floats on 10 July, the Scotsman claims this morning.

An oral hearing will be held on the proposed merger of Lambeth Building Society and Portman Building Society.

Mortgage lenders have embraced the Financial Services Association's (FSA) treating customers fairly (Tcf) initiative but brokers have some way to go, the Intermediary Mortgage Lender's Association (Imla) has said.

A Pension Term Assurance (PTA) factsheet has been launched by the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (Ami).

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined intermediary mortgage firm Rainbow Homeloans £35,000 for systems and controls failings which, it says, exposed around 1000 people to the risk of being sold unsuitable products.