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Aegon has signed a deal with global wrap provider GBST to help push the insurer's drive into the ‘at retirement' and ‘workplace savings' markets.

Monetary Policy Committee inflation hawk Andrew Sentance has once again voted for a rise in UK interest rates.

Mortgage brokers are becoming increasingly reliant on the protection market to survive and are calling for unemployment cover to become standard on income protection (IP), according to new research.

Fairpoint Group, the debt solutions business, acquires a 100% share in price comparison company Moneyextra.com.

UPDATE 12pm: The FTSE 100 index has climbed almost 1.6% in morning trading after strong late gains overnight on Wall Street.

The Chancellor will have no power to solely remove the head of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), George Osborne has pledged.

George Osborne and Vince Cable fear rationing of lending to small firms could reverse the recovery.

Prudential will lobby the Government to back down over plans to raise the charge on unused pension funds on death, which it says will disproportionately hit basic-rate taxpayers.

BP has begun to offload assets aimed at raising cash to pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, agreeing the $7bn sale of fields in the US, Canada and Egypt to Apache.

Lyxor Asset Management has listed 11 ETFs on the Spanish stock exchange, two of which track commodities indices.