Lifemark investors have forced a meeting to decide the fate of the troubled portfolio to be postponed while a potential rescue deal is hammered out.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and ex-England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson have shared part of a £68,000 dividend in a film investment, but must wait to see whether it will yield £117m in promised tax benefits.

HSBC and Standard Chartered could be dragged into a multi-billion dollar dispute between warring Saudi factions after the banks were forced to hand over thousands of potentially incriminating documents.

State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland is to payout around £500m in bonuses to its traders and investment bankers, despite a collapse in profits.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told members of the Treasury Select Committee its latest research shows 91% of advisers expect to have completed their qualifications by December 2012, rebuffing MPs' concerns about the extent of potential exits...

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told UK banks holding the money of investors in a Luxembourg life settlement fund not to allow the cash to be moved.

Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, has said banks must accept responsibility for what went wrong during the financial crisis admitting they still had a long way to go to restore public trust.

This week the Financial Ombudsman Service has been brought under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act. We asked, what have you always wanted to know about the FOS?

Roger Edwards, proposition director, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, delves deep into cyberspace and plucks out three protection sales techniques - one an oldie-but-goodie, one from the US and one for the future.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme looks set to stump up $10m to allow a controlled liquidation of Lifemark after the main contender for a rescue of the fund pulled out.