Britannia Financial Services, a UK pension transfer agency whose advertisements feature “financial motivator” Brendon Johnson, has tweaked its website and paused television advertising after the Financial Markets Authority raised concerns about people feeling “press ganged” into shifting retirement funds. The markets watchdog has raised concerns about some advertising which emphasises the need to transfer UK pensions before April 2015 to avoid incoming tax and …

Stuart McLean will join the executive team at Trade Me Group, the online auction site, after Xero, the cloud-based accounting firm, ditched his former role as chief revenue officer. The disestablishment of the chief revenue role comes after the Wellington-based software firm appointed Andrew Lark, former Commonwealth Bank of Australia executive as chief marketing officer, it said in a statement. …

The Commerce Commission has pushed out the timeline for a final decision on what price Chorus can charge on its copper line network as it deals with a large amount of complex information, and said its initial view is that the regulated price should be backdated no further than the start of December this year. The competition regulator expects to …