Financial advisers have embraced the Retail Distribution Review's (RDR) push for higher qualifications and are looking to extend their level of expertise beyond the mandatory QCF Level 4, an advisory support group said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to ban and fine a former non-executive director (NED) at two mutual societies for failing to disclose her conflicts of interest.

IHT Planning Matters head Peter Legg talks about the current political motivation to clamp down on tax avoidance and what implications it could have for the planning of inheritance tax.

The profession of paraplanner is fast becoming a respected career path for young graduates, with higher qualifications becoming more common and wages rising, an industry survey suggests.

A former IFA has lost his challenge to overturn the Financial Ombudsman's ruling that he had given a client unsuitable pension advice, which ordered him to pay almost £50,000 in compensation.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has compensated 530 members of the Millom and District Credit Union following its collapse last week.

The Financial Services Complaints Commissioner has dismissed a complaint by a group of London traders against the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for its handling of alleged market abuse on a number of exchanges dating as far back as 2007.

The Bank of Ireland (BoI) has reversed controversial increases of mortgage rates for some of the 13,500 affected borrowers following pressure from consumers and lawyers.

IFAs in Scotland could see regulatory costs rise, and have to deal with an inefficient compensation scheme, should the nation's electorate vote 'yes' to independence from the UK, a government report warned.

Honister Capital and its IFA networks Sage Financial, Honister Partners and Burns Anderson have defaulted, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) announced today.