The pursuit by the FSCS and FSA of advisers who recommended Keydata products looks set to create a domino effect that will cascade far and wide.

Lloyds Banking Group's chief executive António Horta-Osório is having to reapply for his own job as doctors prepare to give him the go-ahead to return to work from sick leave.

Regulators should be given greater powers to block hostile bank takeovers in order to avoid a future crisis like the one that forced Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS's) into a £45bn taxpayer bail-out, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA)...

Loans for home purchases reached their highest number since December 2009 in November thanks to the loosest mortgage lending conditions seen since the Lehman collapse, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv chartered surveyors.

IFAonline has uncovered documents which show Cru Investment Management offered IFAs who moved all of their clients into its funds preferential buy-out terms when they wanted to exit the industry and sell their business - but only after they had been with...

Cru Investment Management encouraged advisers to invest all of their clients in Cru funds at a blanket rate of 1% trail commission, in a presentation one IFA has branded a "shambles to encourage churning".

Cru Investment Management gave advisers a 12 step plan to migrate all of their pension and investment clients to its funds, with the offer of a lucrative succession strategy for exiting advisers if they did.

Inheritance and capital gains tax-free allowances will rise more slowly in future, following a government decision to uncouple them from the retail prices index (RPI) so they rise in line with the lower consumer prices index (CPI).

Leeds-based IFA Lampott Ltd must defend a £2m claim for damages at the High Court, after it invested more than a third of a company pension scheme in failed life settlement firm Keydata.

Graham Tuckwell, one of the pioneers in the exchanged traded fund market, has put his company ETF Securities up for sale with a potential £1bn ($1.6bn) price tag.