The Government today issued a call for evidence as part of considerations to simplify the way it deals with income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).

Four risk-rated multi-manager funds run by F&C Thames River have been added to the Sesame One platform proposition.

Rupert Murdoch's takeover of BSkyB appeared to be dead in the water last night after proof emerged that executives at his British newspaper empire mounted a cover-up of the full scale of alleged criminal wrongdoing at the News of the World.

Senior European Union (EU) officials are set to meet later on Monday to discuss the eurozone's continuing debt woes.

Hector Sants, the current chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and Bank of England governor Mervyn King have been named among the most influential people in the European capital markets.

Watch our latest interview with the CII about your gap fill needs in the run-up to RDR, and your CPD requirements after it.

Stephen Greenstreet, managing director of Aegon-owned IFA Origen, has resigned to pursue alternative opportunities within the financial services sector.

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Lehman Brothers secretly borrowed billions of dollars from the US Federal Reserve months before the investment bank filed for bankruptcy, it has emerged.

The downgrading of Portugal's debt to 'junk' status by Moody's earlier this week has led to renewed criticism, this time from the European Commission (EC), of the role and behaviour of credit ratings agencies.