Perspective Financial Group has acquired a Gateshead adviser practice with assets under management worth £22m.

Pension provider Dentons has added a new product to its range, the Dentons Sipp.

Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, is to be subject to further questioning by the Treasury Committee.

Fidelity has requested a standard in the asset management industry to make fund charges more transparent.

The Financial Services Authority was unable to intervene in the deal between Royal Bank of Scotland and Dutch bank ABN Amro, according to Hector Sants.

Defaqto has launched a new series of star ratings to help consumers determine the best product for them.

The Financial Ombudsman Service still intends to publish the details of firms subject to complaints following a public consultation.

Friends Life has launched its workplace savings platform offering pensions, cash and stocks and shares Isas and investment accounts.

A Legal and General fund has become the largest fund on Nucleus, the adviser-owned wrap platform.

A series of amendments have been issued by the Department for Work and Pensions ahead of auto-enrolment implementation.