This week's news...condensed

Good afternoon readers - below are five key articles from this week's IFAonline.co.uk...

Vickers

Banks took a bit of a hit on Monday following the publication of Sir John Vickers's independent commission report on banking, which outlined plans to insulate high street banking businesses from their riskier investment banking arms. MORE...

Pay day

Wanted: FSCS chairman, great pay, two days a week (put your feet up for the rest). MORE...

Introducers

Does this represent an end to the ‘I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine' nature of some IFA/introducer relationships? MORE...

Unbundled

Elsewhere, fund supermarket Cofunds laid down the pricing gauntlet to its wrap rivals. MORE...

Lehmans

Three years after the Lehmans disaster, are advisers closer to understanding counterparty risk? MORE...