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George Osborne met about 70 staff from the FSA yesterday to discuss Conservative plans for a new regulatory structure for the City.

Former Standard Life head of distribution Peter Jolly is joining the ABI to help channel members to be RDR compliant.

Honister Capital has partnered with Scottish Widows to offer its 1,500 advisers access to Widows' online learning academy as it seeks to fast-track its IFAs to QCF Level 4.

Up to 40,000 businesses could go bust next year, according to a study by Begbies Traynor.

LV= has repriced its Balanced Consensus fund and increased its pensions range by six.

Pensions are being kicked around like a political football by the major parties, according to AWD Chase de Vere.

Fee-based Mazars Financial Planning says IFAs will play a key role in shopping to the FSA evidence of restricted firms masquerading as independent.

The FTSE 100 opened 0.5% down as banks fell on news Qatar's sovereign wealth fund had sold stock in Barclays.

Invesco Ltd, the parent company of Invesco Perpetual, will acquire Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business for $1.5bn.

The UK's public sector net borrowing has soared to £77.3bn - the worst figure for the April to September period on record.