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Friends Provident has launched a new online seminar on Pension Contribution Protection Benefit (PCPB) to highlight how advisers can help clients protect their pension contributions in the event of illness or accidental injury.

Judith Thorneycroft thanks readers for their kind words following the death of her husband Ian last month.

Zurich is providing access to new online learning materials in a bid to help advisers studying for examinations for the up coming Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The FSA says the approved persons regime will cover the whole of the mortgage industry, despite calls it should be limited to the intermediary market.

The UK Structured Products Association (SPA) has branded the IMA "misleading" after the trade body criticised complex structured products for their "hidden risks".

The financial watchdog says it is considering a ban on ‘toxic' loan combinations, including elements such as a high loan-to-value (LTV), interest-only and sub-prime in a single deal.

Royal Mail's chairman is advising ministers to plan for a multi-billion pound stock market flotation in an options-open approach to privatisation.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes the Gulf of Mexico spill could lead to the "annihilation" of oil giant BP.

Santander, Spain's biggest bank, is the sole remaining bidder for the 318 Williams & Glynn branches being offloaded by Royal Bank of Scotland.

Iceland was yesterday put on a fast track to join the EU, but the Cameron government served notice it could block the country's membership unless it settled the £2.3bn Britain says it is owed as a result of the country's financial collapse two years ago....