Towry Law has promoted Bryan Innes to the position of senior client partner.

A mortgage rescue scheme aimed at preventing thousands of vulnerable people from losing their homes to repossession has been officially launched today.

Impax Asset Management has linked up with BNP Paribas Investment Partners to launch the Impax Environmental Markets Trust (IEM Trust) to the Australian market.

Merger and acquisition enquiries by advice firms have jumped by 40% at the beginning of 2009, according to specialist firm Brokers4sale.com.

Confidence among British firms is at its lowest level for almost 20 years as a result of the economic conditions, research suggests.

Morgan Stanley has launched its latest tranche of 100% capital protected structured products, designed to access the UK and Asia.

A package of radical measures to get British banks lending more is due to be hammered out at the weekend in an attempt to prevent the recession souring into an even more serious downturn, The Times reports.

The FTSE 100 made a rapid 1.5% gain in early trading on Friday as miners and banks made steady progress.

Scottish Widows has appointed Simon Massey as intermediaries director as part of strategic plans for its IFA channels.

Much has, rightly, been made of the potentially debilitating effect the move to make the diploma the minimum qualification standard might have on scores of otherwise healthy firms.