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Mike Farrell, head of sales and marketing at Royal Liver Assurance, has joined LV= as head of protection sales.

The fallout from last night's backbench debate on the RDR has spilled into the Treasury Select Committee, with Mark Hoban once again facing a grilling on the issue.

The FSA has ordered firms selling pure protection and PPI plans to review their sales policies and compliance procedures after finding "disappointing" oral disclosure practices by some firms.

Exchange-traded product provider Source has confirmed all its ETCs will gain UK reporting status, making them eligible for capital gains tax treatment.

The international rescue package for Ireland has failed to restore confidence in the eurozone debt markets, leading instead to a surge in bond yields across half the currency bloc.

The FTSE edged 0.4% higher to 5,574.98 points in early trading, recovering some of yesterday's 2.1% loss.

Motilal Oswal Asset Management has filed an offer document with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to launch the country's first mid-cap ETF.

Standard & Poor's has released a liquidity weighted index providing exposure to 75 of the eurozone's leading blue chip companies.

Campaigning MPs Harriett Baldwin and Mark Garnier last night declared themselves "amazed" by the cross-party support they received during the much-anticipated parliamentary RDR debate, but some said the common ground meant there was a lack of any progressive...