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A financial adviser who stole almost £200,000 from his customers' life savings has been jailed for two years.

Limits on the amounts payday lenders can charge customers - including a rule stating lenders cannot receive more in fees and interest on a loan than the amount borrowed - have been confirmed by the financial regulator.

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Life, pensions and investment company Royal London is seeking to provide its non-advised retirees with access to independent advice "at low cost" in the wake of the Budget pension freedoms.

Two fraudulent investment companies that raised more than £850,000 from the public for near worthless carbon credits have been ordered into liquidation by the High Court.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has extended to January its support for a 'negotiated settlement' for investors in the failed Connaught Series 1 fund.

Three former senior executives of a high street insurer have been banned and fined a total of almost £1m for failing to prevent - and in some cases actively encouraging - the development of an aggressive sales culture which led to the mis-selling of insurance...

The Legal Ombudsman will from January 2015 deal with complaints about claims management companies (CMCs).