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The FSA may use the extra data it plans to collect from adviser firms to control the price of advice post-2012, Alan Lakey says.

The FSA will use new rules requiring firms to publish the complaints records of their advisers to help "build an overall picture" of individuals, but it has promised to investigate fully any cases that give it cause for concern and says it will only ban...

Prudential's UK new business profit fell 6% in the first quarter of 2011, despite an increase in sales.

Scottish Widows will appear in the Supreme Court on 16 May over a tax refund dispute with HMRC.

The Natixis Euro High Income Fund is poised to address current investor demand for European high yield bonds in the UK and continental Europe, according to Natixis Global Associates International.

The Jersey branch of The Society of Estate and Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) is hosting a seminar on remuneration planning

Customers of Bradford & Bingley International will be transferred to Alliance & Leicester International on 5th August 2011 following the decision by the parent group, Santander, to drop the Bradford & Bingley name.

Another day, another FSA paper...

Lighthouse Advisory Services (LAS), the network division of the Lighthouse Group, more than doubled its profits in 2010, driven by a 15% increase in average adviser sales.

British businesses are seeing costs rise far more slowly than the headline inflation rate, signalling that price increases are set to return to the Bank of England's target, according to leading economic analysts.