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Banks will re-enter the advice space once the regulator has given a clear steer on simplified advice, Standard Life head of business solutions Innes Miller has suggested.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices around inducements in its final guidance.

The planned cap on pension charges for auto-enrolment schemes, due to come in this April, has been shelved for at least 12 months, according to the FT.

The defined contribution (DC) pensions market will rocket to six times its 2012 value of £276bn assets under management (AUM) by 2030, according to the Pensions Institute (PI).

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today laid out its final rules around adviser-provider inducements. Here IFAonline breaks down the paper into what the regulator deems acceptable - and what it definitely does not.

AFH Financial Group has acquired Stoke-on-Trent based IFA firm SR Wealth Management.

Advisers and providers share the burden of responsibility for managing potential conflicts of interest, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said in a guidance paper out today.

Platform giants Standard Life and Fidelity have attacked Hargreaves Lansdown over its new pricing structure following its release yesterday.

Labour will refer high street banks to the competition authorities if it is elected in 2015, Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is expected to say in a speech on Friday.

Ex-Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Sir Hector Sants is being courted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a financial taskforce, just two months after leaving a key role at Barclays with "extreme stress and exhaustion".