Europe

UK - Co-operative Bank Financial Advisers has become the first company to be awarded the See it Right accessible website logo from the Royal National Institute of the Blind.

UK - PIRC will urge the government to make radical reforms to the non-executive role to ease boardroom tensions.

UK - Pension schemes and employers are split over government plans which will force companies to put executive pay deals to shareholders.

UK - Employees at mobile phone operator T-Mobile may become the latest to take industrial action after it was revealed that "outrageous" plans to close parts of the company's final salary scheme might extend beyond the headquarters at Borehamwood.

UK - Aberdeen Asset Management is to open up its EUR200m Celogix property fund to UK pension funds and investors.

UK - Aegon UK has bought a 50% stake in retirement adviser Wentworth Rose to expand the distribution of its retirement solution products.

UK - Inland Revenue rules to combat fraudulent pension transfers have been introduced too fast for pension schemes, a lawyer claims.

UK - The pensions transfer market is growing by 30% a year as a result of companies moving from defined benefit to money purchase provision, AMP NPI says.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has called for a radical overhaul of the UK's pension regime just days before Alan Pickering's Simplification Review is to be published.

UK - State Street Corporation has hired Paul Chapman as head of relationship management and strategic marketing for the UK.