The Treasury has recommended that banks with group-wide pension funds should split them into separate schemes for each arm of their businesses.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has proposed to fine employers and pension schemes £100 each time they fail to update details in real time.

Providers are split on whether employers or insurers have responsibility for holding employee contributions during opt-out periods.

Schemes could find themselves "frozen out" of the Pension Protection Fund if their sponsoring employer is based overseas and fails certain tests, a lawyer warns.

A recent ruling classing early retirement benefits as the responsibility of the acquiring company in an asset deal will add "cost and uncertainty" to mergers and acquisitions, Mercer says.

Drivers for East Midlands Trains will stage two more days of strike action, following an earlier six days, over changes to their defined benefit scheme.

The government will not come to a firm answer on the question of small pension pot consolidation despite an industry-wide consultation on the issue initiated by pensions minister Steve Webb.

Cambridge Local Government Pension Fund and Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, have launched Cambridge & Counties bank.

FTSE100 scheme liabilities remained static over 2011, Barnett Waddingham says.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association has called for candidates to come forward for election to its board.