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Nick Kirwan has joined the executive team of the Income Protection Task Force.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned two former Freedom SIPP directors, John James Quarrell and Susan McKenzie Beaumont, from working in the financial services industry.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is planning to widen its review into firms' sales incentives following an assessment last year which uncovered widespread failings among those operating incentive schemes.

Banks are likely to 'continue to hide' their charges leaving independent and restricted whole of market advisers at a disadvantage, said the director of Wingate Financial Planning.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced it is to axe 170 roles within the retail division.

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A former sales trader at Legal & General's investment management arm and a broker are the latest defendants to face charges in the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) biggest insider-trading investigation.

Legal & General (L&G) decided not to charge an hourly rate to clients using its restricted service because doing so could have done "dis-service" to them, according to the group's managing director for banks and building societies.

Malcolm Streatfield, chief executive of the Lighthouse Group, has transferred 233,333 ordinary shares of 1p in the company into his self-invested personal pension (SIPP).