RSM Tenon Group says recent changes in pensions legislation have created new opportunities for its advisory businesses and will have a "major influence" on revenue in the second half of 2010.

The RDR will now be subject to a full Parliamentary debate, but do not expect the FSA or its successor organisation to backtrack on any of its major proposals.

To herald structured products as 'win-win' for clients except in the most extreme market conditions is highly misleading, Worldwide Financial Planning's Peter McGahan says.

A television advert for life insurance offered by supermarket giant ASDA has been branded "misleading" and banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Andrew Fisher, chief executive of Towry, is in line for a £100m payday when the wealth manager is listed in the New Year.

Many cutting remarks have been made about AIFA's apparently-limp challenge to Keydata's classification as an intermediary. Now a lawyer appears to have summed them all up rather succinctly.

In the end, the long-awaited judicial review into the FSCS's decision to levy advisers for compensation costs relating to the collapse of Keydata was over in a day.

London's leading index of shares added to yesterday's triple-digit gains in early trading on Friday, before dipping into negative territory.

The Bank of England today rejected a fresh bout of quantitative easing and kept interest rates on hold for the 20th consecutive month.

The director of a mortgage lender who branded some customers "evil" has been fined £70,000 and banned by the FSA for irresponsible lending and unfair treatment of customers in arrears.