Two men have denied murdering a financial adviser who was shot in the chest at his home in April last year.

David Nish, Standard Life's new CEO, says he is keen to explore other sales avenues outside the financial advisory route including direct to consumer and employer-based.

HSBC, Barclays and Nationwide are the only British institutions to register in Global Finance's list of the world's 50 safest banks but no UK names appear in the top 10.

Business secretary Vince Cable has conceded the UK's biggest banks may not be split along "crude lines" but instead firewalls could be introduced to separate retail and investment arms.

Sesame Bankhall is planning a new investment platform to fill the gap left by Bankhall's Portavista which closed earlier this year.

UK house prices will remain static this year, the Halifax predicts.

Gartmore has awarded 3.5% of the company's equity to a group of top staff to encourage them to stay at the group.

Steward Ford says the FSA is to blame for the collapse of Keydata as it was 'desperate to look tough and claim scalps' after its failure to properly regulate the banking sector.

Nearly six million people have paid the wrong amount of tax with around £2bn underpaid via the Pay As You Earn(PAYE) system in the past two years.

Fund launch season could be a mixed bag amid economic uncertainty