The government may bring forward an increase in the state pension age to 67 as part of radical plans designed to prolong the working life of millions, according to reports over the weekend.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has added to coalition tensions over the future of the 50p top rate of income tax with a warning to Tories against 'helping their friends in the City'.

Bankers who take unacceptable risks or mis-sell products to customers should be barred, Labour leader Ed Miliband said.

The UK's banks face an annual bill as high as £7bn to comply with the reforms of the Vickers Commission, according to the panel's final report published today.

Savers have lost more than £43bn since Bank Rate was cut to just 0.5pc two and a half years ago, figures from the Bank of England suggest.

Ivan Massow is back with a controversial new business idea - and he is ready for a "punch-up" as he tries to pinch advisers' clients.

Ivan Massow, the entrepreneur who once ran the UK's 10th largest advice firm, is mounting a direct challenge to IFAs with a new online service to help consumers slash ongoing commission they pay for advice they no longer receive.

HMRC is stepping up a campaign to target the super-rich by targeting people using overseas companies or trusts to hide property deals.

RBS, HSBC and Barclays ignored warnings from third party advisers before selling on billions of dollars of toxic mortgage debt to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the lead-up to the financial crisis, court papers have alleged.

Brett Williams, the former head of both the Skandia and Cofunds platforms, has joined the board of boutique fund house Insynergy Investment Management, as a non-executive director.