Banks are only making minor improvements in their handling of complaints, according to a study by research firm ConsumerIntelligence.com.

House sellers are being forced to cut asking prices by over £18,500 or 7.1% on average, according to Zoopla research.

Royal London group received a boost from Scottish Life and 360° during the first half of 2011 but its protection arm suffered a 17% sales slump.

George Osborne and Vince Cable are set to go head to head over the Vickers' report into banking reform, as they debate the timetable for ringfencing retail banking operations.

Chancellor George Osborne has hinted again the 50p tax rate remains under review.

Foreign boiler room scams are conning British customers out of millions of pounds a year by claiming they are promoting ethical investments in forests, bio-fuels and carbon credits, police warn.

Yesterday a number of continental European regulators imposed a ban on short selling certain financial stocks.

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Asian stocks have slumped on Monday, extending one of the worst sell-offs in recent years, after Standard and Poor's cut the US's triple-A credit rating.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made a profit of $806m on lending Goldman Sachs $5bn to help the bank through the last financial crisis.