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The Financial Services Bill has passed through to the House of Lords without any significant amendments affecting financial advisers, including the reintroduction of a long-stop.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is to co-host a roundtable event looking at how upcoming regulatory changes will affect IFAs.
You would think a Member of Parliament, faithfully supported by more than 19,000 constituents in Coventry South, would know his stuff about VAT.
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A shadow minister has hit out at the changes already being made to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the regulatory landscape before Parliament has a chance to legislate on them.
Government ministers will aim to overturn the exclusion of means-testing of cancer patients receiving Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as the coalition’s government’s Welfare Reform Bill moves back to the House of Commons.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it intends to roll out a 'consumer communications plan' to help ensure the public is aware of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) and its impact on the delivery of financial advice.
Labour has made a last attempt to stall the government’s increase to the state pension age (SPA) in the very last stages of the Pensions Bill.
Disillusioned with trade and professional bodies, advisers are rediscovering the power of the strongly-worded letter...
Lord Robert Winston has slammed the government’s Health and Social Care Bill saying there was “a hell of a lot wrong with it” and said it did not address patients basic medical needs.
Shares in BSkyB have rebounded after a 3% fall this afternoon as Rupert Murdoch bowed to pressure to withdraw his bid for the remaining 61% of the broadcaster.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has presented a petition of nearly 7000 member signatures to Parliament demanding the acceleration of the review into the funding of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
The shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves has urged the government to move forward with the Pensions Bill before the summer recess.
MPs today rejected a bill which could have stopped the FSA increasing its regulatory fees above the rate of inflation.
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