US stocks advanced on Monday amid perceived progress in talks to resolve the eurozone debt crisis.

The risk of another UK recession is higher now than in recent months, according to Bank of England policymaker Martin Weale, who said he suspected the economy would contract in the final quarter of 2011.

A decision - scheduled for Sunday - on whether to boost the eurozone's €440bn rescue fund has been delayed due to fresh disagreement between France and Germany about how to address the debt crisis.

The head of the FSA's consumer panel has said the regulator's treating customers fairly (TCF) project has failed to adequately protect consumers and called for ministers to introduce legislation requiring financial services firms to adhere to a 'fiduciary...

Entrepreneur Robert Gaines-Cooper today lost his appeal in the Supreme Court over whether he could rely on HMRC guidance to determine residency, in a dispute stretching back almost 20 years.

Russell McBurnie, chief financial officer at national accountancy and advisory firm RSM Tenon, has stepped down from the role and will be replaced by Adrian Gardner.

Staff at RBS's investment unit have been told the company will not subsidise Christmas parties this year as it looks to cut spending.

Ernst & Young has downgraded its forecast for UK gross domestic product (GDP) to just 0.9% this year - significantly below the 1.4% it predicted three months ago - as it described the economic situation "worse than we thought".

Insurer Scottish Life is sending cheques worth an average £350 to more than 17,000 former with-profits investors after discovering it underpaid them when their policies matured.

Critics of The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) Bill - the Australian government's attempt to reform its retail investment distribution market - say it will decimate the nation's adviser numbers and orphan millions of clients, in a stirring echo of some...