Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has been embarrassed after being fined £500 by HM Revenue and Customs for failing to pay VAT on his extra-curricular earnings.

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) is seeking to build cross-country support with other European Union member states which have a growing IFA population.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Credit Suisse £5.95m for failings in relation to sales by its private bank of structured capital at risk products (SCARPs).

Syed Kamall, member of the European Parliament for London, said he is "not impressed" with the European Commission's assessment of the impact of EU regulation on the UK, and has called for an independent review of proposals to only ban IFAs from receiving...

An estimated six million taxpayers are in line for a windfall refund as Revenue & Customs tries to unravel the latest in a series of administrative problems.

Medium-sized businesses are the UK's "forgotten army", overlooked by government but with the potential to inject between £20bn and £50bn into the economy by 2020, according to the CBI.

Insurance entrepreneur and millionaire Ivan Massow has given away tens of thousands of pounds to worthy causes as part of Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire programme.

Sir Richard Branson is on the brink of buying the taxpayer-owned Newcastle bank Northern Rock in a £1bn deal as American rivals start to fall away.

Bank of England governor Mervyn King has been asked by the Treasury Select Committee to explain his decision to inject a further £75m into the UK economy through quantitative easing (QE).

The MP who this week had his calls for a government inquiry into the controversial £54m Arch cru investors' payment scheme dismissed by the Treasury, has said the fight for answers will continue in the corridors of Westminster.