Nine months after Brett Williams left Cofunds, the platform has announced a new CEO...

British taxpayers are set to stump up more than £10bn to cover EU spending in 2012 - almost £700m more than they paid in 2010, according to The Telegraph.

Advisers and providers will need to be mindful of breaching regulatory rules when drawing up adviser charging contracts, an RDR paper by Deloitte warns.

The final cost to BP from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could reach $60bn (£37bn), according to fresh analysis from ratings agency Moody's.

Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, shrugged off warnings from a leading ratings agency about the US public finances as he sought to reassure Wall Street that the world's biggest economy would be able to maintain its highly-prized AAA rating.

Is it possible to reach a catch-all definition of commission that accurately reflects what a financial adviser does for an income?

National IFA Positive Solutions has overhauled its pension switching guidelines for its 1,300 partner advisers following FSA guidance and recent regulatory action against at least 22 firms.

Hector Sants, the FSA chief executive, has admitted the "considerable" costs of implementing Solvency II may outweigh the short-term benefits to the industry.

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Michael Ellam, managing director of the Treasury's international and finance directorate, has been appointed chairman of the EU's financial services regulation committee.