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10 Apr 2008
The Financial Services Authority today launched a review of the rulebook for regulated firms that hold client money. But it said it was too early to revisit the section of the Client Assets Sourcebook (CASS) that applies to general insurance intermediaries....
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04 Apr 2008
Insurers who use gender as a factor in the calculation of premiums and benefits must publish the data on which such assessment is based by 30th June 2008 or within six months of a new product first being sold, according to guidance issued by the...
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04 Apr 2008
Business customers are confused about how much insurance brokers and intermediaries are paid, the services they provide and even for whom they act, according to a discussion paper published by the Financial Services Authority today.
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31 Mar 2008
The number of cybersquatting cases ruled on by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has jumped by almost half in just two years. Last year WIPO settled more domain name disputes then ever before.
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31 Mar 2008
Employers will have to comply with a set of new laws from Sunday as legislation passed in recent months comes into force. They will have new responsibilities for workers who die through their negligence and will face changed sex discrimination laws.
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28 Mar 2008
A Canadian university is facing action by its staff over an email system that passes communications through the US. Staff fear that US authorities will be able to read their emails and have objected to the system.
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27 Mar 2008
The Government has said that it will establish a Council for Child Internet Safety and start to apply to computer games the age restrictions used to classify films.
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27 Mar 2008
A property developer has been refused the right to use evidence of contract negotiations to change the definition of a term in the contract, despite the fact that a judge said the evidence was in the developer's favour.
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27 Mar 2008
Non-Lloyd's brokers could gain access to the Lloyd's insurance market under proposals put forward today by the Treasury. The plan is part of a wider scheme to update Lloyd's governance arrangements under the Lloyd's Act 1982.
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26 Mar 2008
Passengers on UK planes could soon be able to make phone calls in the air. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has decided to allow the airwaves to be used for in-flight calls but has warned consumers about the high likely costs of doing so.
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