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Institute of Fiscal Studies director Robert Chote has been selected as the preferred chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

National Insurance Contributions (NICs) holidays have come into effect for new businesses outside London, the South East and East of England.

Chancellor George Osborne will scrap the Pre-Budget Report this year and replace it with a slimmed-down autumn statement.

Consumers and not pension providers are to blame for the lack of take-up of the Open Market Option (OMO), claims The Annuity Bureau.

The coalition government has issued an ultimatum to the Association of British Insurers over its opposition to the open market option, RP understands.

Our first post-war coalition Government has now lasted 100 days; not a great achievement in itself but a convenient moment at which to pause and consider its impact on the financial services sector.

Vince Cable has backed the extension of preferential lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), threatening banks with penalties if they fail to provide loans to good businesses.

Developing regional stock exchanges may "fragment" liquidity and narrow the pool of investors available to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), a Treasury Green Paper published today says.