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A shift in focus by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) toward the biggest City banks in the wake of the financial crisis has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of risk assessments conducted into financial firms.

SIPP provider IFG Group has received a second takeover approach from an unnamed company.

Royal London will focus on building up its protection business in Ireland through latest acquisition, Caledonian Life.

The Insolvency Service has said there will be no proceedings taken against Stewart Ford and the other Keydata directors.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will not provide a gateway to the selling of protection products, according to think tank Reform.

Ranking people in affordability terms for long term care (LTC) would open the market to insurers actuaries have been told.

Michael Johnson has reignited calls for limiting pensions tax relief, saying the annual £29bn saved by the Treasury from tax relief could increase the state pension by 60%.

Transact has held its top spot on The Platforum leaderboard for the first quarter.

Five more days in the world of financial advice and every one of them was eventful…

BP has reached a compensation settlement with one of the owners of the well which leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year.