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Allfunds Bank has appointed former Calastone director Anna Graziano as head of operations and propositions, representing the final hire for the management team headed by Stephen Mohan.

Chris Smallwood, the chief executive of Openwork-owned national IFA 2plan, has called on the regulator to crack down on what he said were 'misleading' terms used by some restricted advice firms to describe their services.

Hargreaves Lansdown has confirmed a number of its new discounted fund deals will be subject to HMRC's rebate tax, with only 9 of the 27 funds on its Wealth 150 Plus list available via preferentially priced share classes.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said platforms need to do more to incorporate re-registration and has issued a warning over exit fees.

Annuity provider Just Retirement has reduced its minimum fund size to £2,000.

Hargreaves Lansdown has revealed the details of its new clean pricing deals from leading fund groups including M&G, Newton and Schroders.

Fidelity's Personal Investing platform has moved to minimise the impact of D2C super clean fund deals on the end-investor by offering to refund the difference when funds are available cheaper elsewhere.

Will Old Mutual Wealth have any use for the independent advisers it has acquired as part of its deal to buy Intrinsic?

UK house prices rose by 0.6% in February, a 9.4% increase on the same month in 2013, according to Nationwide Building Society.

Steve Webb's commitment to introducing a charge cap on auto-enrolment (AE) schemes has "shamefully" collapsed, according to Labour Lord Desmond Browne.