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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.

The government will look to exempt small financial services firms from further regulation for three years when it writes new powers for the FSA's successor.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has launched a member petition to be tabled in the House of Commons on the way the FSCS is funded.

It took George Osborne a little under one hour to deliver his second package of measures as Chancellor today.

It took a while, but the past six months have seen politicians in Westminster finally take note of RDR and the way it may impact advisers and consumers.

Simon Badley, director of intermediary at Aviva, says the industry needs to work together to change the client view of financial advice.

Modest investors who may be priced out of holistic financial advice post-2012 will need less of it anyway as they become auto-enroled into pension schemes, investment manager Vanguard says.

Our coverage of last night's historic Commons RDR debate triggered an avalanche of comments from our readers. Did it live up to your expectations?

Next week's highly anticipated parliamentary debate on the RDR should focus on adviser charging, not populist issues like grandfathering, says Yellowtail Financial Planning MD Dennis Hall.