Turmoil makes membership essential - AMI

Chris Cummings, director general of AMI, said the body had lobbied hard to protect members interests during good times and bad. He added: "The onset of market turmoil has seen AMI work even harder to ensure our members' voice is heard at all political and regulatory levels and there has never been a more crucial time to join the trade body."

Richard Farr, director of AMI, added: "We have been successful in protecting commission, changing a European Directive to ensure members could still receive commission payments, and will shortly be releasing a paper outlining our suggested solutions to the current credit crunch."