Prudential has reported operating profits for 2012 of £2.5bn, up 25% on the previous year.

Asian shares took a breather on Wednesday, struggling for traction as some investors locked in profits from the markets' recent rally while a bit of yen strength capped the upside for Japanese stocks.

Britain is on track for a triple dip recession, one of the nation's leading forecasters has signalled, as new figures on the UK's manufacturing industry dealt a blow to recovery hopes and sent sterling crashing to a fresh two-and-a-half year low.

A law firm has warned that some property investments made with Harlequin Group via a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) may have breached lending rules.

As many as one in three new self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) with Dentons is investing direct into UK commercial property, the highest rate the provider has seen.

An ex-futures trader has been jailed for insider dealing after pocketing £591,000 in fraudulent deals.

Harlequin Property, a UK-based overseas property sales agent that is not regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has agreed a "substantial" out of court settlement with a number of investors who wanted their money back.

The break-up of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) at the start of April is set to create more compliance and risk jobs in the retail banking sector, according to research from BrightPool, the specialist financial services recruitment company.

High net worth (HNW) investor confidence is at its highest level in three years, according to the DeVere group.

The Bank of Ireland has come under fresh fire for raising the rates of its tracker mortgages after Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the influential Treasury Select Committee (TSC), wrote to Martin Wheatley, managing director of the Financial Services Authority...