Law and Regulation

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is consulting on draft changes to disclosure of information in public sector schemes.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is ready to relax regulation to encourage technological innovation in the pensions industry and other financial services.

The Pensions Ombudsman's workload could become "completely untenable" if it rules in favour of scheme members seeking to transfer into suspected liberation scams.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has raised serious concerns over a scheme to encourage people to cash in pensions which has already netted up to £4m.

Lord John Monks has branded the use of band earnings to calculate auto-enrolment contributions an "injustice" and said the government was "committed to excluding the low paid" from the initiative.

Malcolm McLean says the pace of change today is unprecedented, and calls for time to draw breath

The Bank of England (BoE) has launched its biggest ever review into the fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) markets following a string of recent scandals.

The government should consider scrapping the state pension to avoid national debt reaching unmanageable levels, argues a think tank.

HM Treasury could land a healthy windfall of £1.6bn as up to 200,000 people are expected to cash in the pension pots in April, according to research.

EU policymakers have stopped describing schemes as "financial institutions" and left more powers with member states in the latest draft of its Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provisions (IORP II) directive.