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Few advisers will drop out of the industry after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) and most plan to go independent, research from Capital Platform suggests.

Britain's banks face a financial black hole of up to £60bn from regulatory demands, hidden losses, and potential mis-selling costs that threaten to jeopardise future growth, the Bank of England has warned.

Capital Platform has teamed up with technology developer JCS Software to launch a new service for its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) proposition.

AJ Bell has confirmed it will be one of the first major platforms to go live on Origo's Options re-registration service.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has begun informal discussions with key industry players about a potential ban on all fund commission payments from the start of 2014 for business written on platforms.

The risk a triple-dip recession could hit people's finances is a big worry to about a quarter of consumers, research from the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has revealed.

The Law Society has taken the unprecedented step of urging its members to ignore the Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) new rules on recommending financial advisers to clients, warning that they could expose solicitors to negligence claims.

Colin Jelley, St James's Place divisional director of private clients, has left the business.

Just Retirement has launched a medically underwritten buy-in service aimed at small and medium-sized defined benefit schemes.

Starting valuations for UK stocks and increasingly negative equity sentiment point to the beginnings of a new bull market, according to Schroders' Richard Buxton.