PPI

An organisation claiming to be the regulator for the booming but "cowboy-plagued" IVA industry has itself come under fire from the Department of Trade and Industry, reports the Times .

The threat of an increase in interest rates in the new year grew yesterday after the International Monetary Fund sounded a warning another rise may well be needed, reports the Times .

The Financial Services Authority has fined Home and County Mortgages Limited £52,500 for inflating customers' incomes on mortgage applications and failures in its sales processes.

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries is calling for mortgage payment protection insurance to be excluded from the proposed PPI referral to the Competition Commission.

Differences in the individual suitability of personal accounts could cause problems in producing clear generic advice, claims the Pensions Policy Institute.

Government proposals to further simplify the State Second Pension could still mean it won't become flat-rate for all individuals until 2031, claims the Pensions Policy Institute.

Everyone agrees pensions reform should produce a system that's fair for everyone. But what is fair? And could the reforms unintentionally lead to some unfair outcomes?

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The Office of Fair Trading recently announced it is referring the payment protection insurance market to the Competition Commission, but some advisers and providers have raised doubts about whether such a move is appropriate.

Concerns about the suitability of auto-enrolling certain people into personal accounts need to be taken into account by the government.