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The incoming Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined plans to use new powers permitting it to publish details of enforcement cases, at one of the earliest stages of its proceedings.

The Care and Support Bill should stipulate that local authorities must recommend regulated independent financial advisers, to care funders a joint committee has recommended.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) is working on "difficult" plans to measure take-up and success of simple protection products.

The incoming FCA will focus on consumer expectation, even if it is "utterly unreasonable", according to a legal and regulatory compliance consultancy.

Symponia has called today's social care announcement "a clever pre-budget manoeuvre to create a seemingly positive headline and divert attention away from the ailing coalition, during Budget week."

Childcare vouchers could be reprieved with an increased cap limit as part of an apparent government u-turn in this week's Budget, according to reports.

Adviser network Pink has launched a business protection club as the next stage in its adviser protection development programme.

Aviva has added second opinion and practical guidance services to its critical illness products for adviser client policyholders.

Chancellor George Osborne is to tell the electorate this week that his debt plans are in ruins, with the deadline for bringing UK debt down pushed back by many years.

An expat insurer has expanded its offering into the Middle East and established its first operations in Dubai.