The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a rallying call to advisers and the wider industry to help it regulate, saying it "can't do it alone".

Investors have poured more than £1bn into funds investing in Brazil, Russia, India and China in the past six months.

BP and Shell were braced for the reaction of the markets on Wednesday after European regulators began an investigation into whether the companies may have manipulated the price of oil for more than a decade.

The administrator of the sales arm of the troubled Harlequin Property group has racked up fees of more than £28,000 in its first ten days in the role.

Respect MP George Galloway has joined with the IFA Centre to rally all 650 members of Parliament to fight for compensation for Arch Cru investors.

Royal London has reported assets under administration on its Ascentric wrap platform have risen 16% to nearly £6bn, in what the company said is the wrap's "best ever quarter".

Skandia has taken a number of steps to speed up re-registration processes with platforms that are currently unable to handle automated re-registration.

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The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has issued a call to action to its members, urging them to respond to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) fees consultation paper.

Russell Investments is partnering with Distribution Technology, a fund risk profiling specialist, to provide independent risk profiling for 16 of its funds and model portfolios.