Barclays is launching an unprecedented review of the overdraft fees and charges faced by nearly 12 million of its current account customers in a bid to make a decisive break from the "sins of the past".

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has won Germany's election, but finished just short of an absolute majority, official results show.

Royal Mail has sought to stave off a strike threat to its £3bn stock market flotation by offering its workers a new pension deal.

Bankhall is urging firms to identify and review emerging risks within their business in light of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) increasing focus on retail conduct risk - and has launched a tool for advisers to help them.

David Ingram, partner at support services firm Aim Two Three, has been appointed president of the Personal Finance Society (PFS).

Tailormade, which advised on self-invested personal pension (SIPP) transfers into troubled overseas property company Harlequin and was a major distributor of Harlequin investments, is entering liquidation because it can't finance redress payments to clients....

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices in its consultation paper on inducements after it found "serious failings" among advisory firms in complying with the regulator's conflict of interest rule.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found breaches to Principle 8 regarding conflicts of interest in half of the firms it reviewed as part of a report into inducements between advisers and providers.