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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it plans more education of firms and invention to curb market abuse on the ‘front line' of financial services.

Hargreaves Lansdown has set up a pension contribution calculator to help people work out their annual allowance and carry forward allocations.

Exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform iShares has launched a toolkit to help advisers assess the ETF market.

Economic output per person in the UK will not recover to its pre-crisis peak until 2018, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

The Chancellor has insisted Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bankers, not the taxpayer, must pay the fines handed out over the LIBOR fixing scandal.

Barclays has set aside an additional £400m to repay customers mis-sold interest rate hedging products and another £600m for payment protection insurance (PPI) redress.

The New Model Business Academy (NMBA) is looking to bring new blood into financial services by targeting A-Level students to work with member firms.

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) is looking to set up a tool on its website to help firms pick an adviser for employees approaching retirement.

The Honister Capital administrator, Grant Thornton, has assured creditors that the 112 complaints it has received since the advisory firm went into administration will be dealt with by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Towry has appointed of Ed Colyer from private bank Coutts as manager of products in its client proposition team.