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Abandoning the default retirement age was ‘crass and stupid' and has left a ‘huge potential timebomb for UK businesses', according to employment experts.

Friends Life has launched a microsite connecting advisers to information on Protect+ service Best Doctors.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has concluded the £5.73bn UK dentistry market is not always working in the best interests of patients.

Now Pensions has teamed-up with Ellipse to offer life insurance as an optional part of its auto-enrolment solution.

Medicash has introduced an employee assistance programme to its corporate paid cash plans.

One in three have been embellishing insurance applications in the hope of cheaper premiums, Zurich has said.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is telling banks, building societies and credit unions to publicise more prominently the guarantee schemes which apply to their customers' deposits.

The man responsible for HSBC's UK retail and commercial banking business has been named as the next chairman of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel (FSPP).

The payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal has cost financial services £1.375bn so far this year, according to FSA payout figures.

Richard Ward, chief executive at Lloyd's, has confirmed the insurance market has prepared for the collapse of the Euro and put a multi-currency settlement option in place and ready to go.