European governments yesterday discussed the prospect of a fresh multi-billion euro bailout for Greece - just a year after committing €110bn - in a bid to calm the markets and stabilise the region's currency.

Private client stockbroker Charles Stanley Group has acquired wealth manager Jobson James Financial Services for a maximum £2.25m, the purchase price being subject to revenue targets being met over the next two years.

Who moved where in another busy week in financial services...

Firms offering 'lay advocate' roles to unqualified individuals after 2012 have been warned by the FSA to make sure they do not stray into regulated advice territory. Here's what you had to say...

I'm in the game of clear, concise and effective communication and, as client-facing advisers, so are you.

The FSA says proposals to collect extra sales data from advice firms are not part of wider plans to effectively control how much they charge for their services.

If a courier loses a set of completed CII exam papers, whose fault is it: the CII's or the courier's?

A year ago I wrote about my experiences of setting up a new IFA business - Prime Time Financial - having previously joined the financial services world from a career in IT. Well, it's been a year of hits and misses?

The FSA will use new rules requiring firms to publish the complaints records of their advisers to help "build an overall picture" of individuals, but it has promised to investigate fully any cases that give it cause for concern and says it will only ban...

Another day, another FSA paper...