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FundsNetwork has urged the regulator to review the "EasyJet" style charging structure of wraps in its consultation on platform charging models.

Two IFAs - one who uses a single platform and one who uses several - explain why they support their chosen method, and how this week's platform paper will do little to change it.

Adviser support group Tenet has launched a technology platform aimed at helping adviser firms transition to the retail distribution review (RDR).

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

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 FSA today published its Policy Statements on platforms, with the delay in setting rules on cash rebates the surprise outcome...

Today's long-awaited FSA platforms paper addressed - if not resolved - all the key issues affecting product providers, platforms and distributors.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it would be concerned if firms claiming to be independent made "extensive" use of a single platform, or only one which pays a rebate.

The cost of implementing the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) platform proposals has reduced from £174.6m to £103.8m as a result of its decision not to go ahead with its ban on cash rebates.

Zurich UK Life has launched a recruitment drive to beef up its platform team ahead of the planned launch of its retail proposition later this year.