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Pension law should be changed to give people early access to their tax-free lump to help pay off debt, the Liberal Democrats say.

Living Time has appointed 15 people to its IFA account management team, 13 of whom were former Hartford employees.

The UK Platform Group, formed from the UK's biggest platform providers, will agree implementation of a new re-registration solution over the next six months, with full roll-out to meet the RDR deadline at the end of 2012.

Unum has altered its Group Life product, increasing its Free Cover Limit (FCL) to £1.75 million.

The divorcing of product and adviser charges must not result in higher overall costs for the consumer, warns Skandia.

The FSA has secured, for the first time, a bankruptcy order against a former mortgage broker for non-payment of a £129,000 penalty relating to fraud.

The Bank of England has shocked the City by freezing its quantitative easing programme and keeping interest rates on hold.

Financial advisers will have to publish their own complaints data under radical new proposals unveiled today by the FSA.

Banks and building societies are preventing home ownership, according to a poll commissioned by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).

Lending criteria stopped tightening in May but lending remains at very low levels, according to the latest data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).