The board of the Financial Ombudsman Service has appointed Amerdeep Somal as the new independent assessor for the service.

Prudential has poached Jackie Hunt from Standard Life to give her the role of chief executive for its UK and European business.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is looking to recruit - and is offering a hefty salary of £100,000 a year.

A wide ranging survey of more than three hundred wealth managers and advisers suggests the industry is being forced to re-examine its value proposition in light of the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Positive Solutions, the UK's largest national independent financial advice firm, has made LifeQuote, a protection platform, available to its advisers.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined EFG Private Bank (EFG) £4.2m for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) controls for high risk customers.

Only those consumers with a PhD could understand the terms and conditions of payment protection insurance (PPI), according to research carried out by rights group Consumer Focus.

Stocks have room to rise, investors need to diversify across fixed income and seek yield globally and emerging markets deserve another look, is the advice to investors from J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

The number of adviser firms using Standard Life's platform has increased 12% since the first quarter of 2012.

Bristol and West, which is owned by the Bank of Ireland, has lost an attempt at a Tax Tribunal to avoid paying about £30m tax on a £91m gain.