Warren Buffett has increased his stake in Tesco plc by £120m, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The FSA's consultation on simplified advice contradicts warnings it has previously made on risk profiling tools and the regulator needs to clarify its position, Prudential distribution strategy director Russell Warwick said.

Aviva suffered a massive backlash on social media site Twitter last night against its placement of an advert for income protection (IP) showing a motorbike accident during ITV's popular period drama Downton Abbey.

The Treasury Select Committee has today published the terms of reference for its inquiry into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and is calling for evidence on how the new regulator should be interacting with the industry and using its intervention...

Kweku Adoboli, an ETF trader at UBS, is suspected of unauthorised trading which cost the bank £1.3bn. But UBS is far from alone in suffering the sting of internal fraud, as this gallery of the world's most infamous rogue traders shows...

The $2bn losses incurred by UBS as a result of an alleged rogue trader put banks' risk controls under further scrutiny...

Forward-looking company reports on pay and bonuses should be introduced to help resolve concerns over large rewards, Robert Talbut, chief investment officer of Royal London Asset Management has proposed.

Markets rise on central banks' action, Google helps SMEs, and Goldman Sachs closes the jewel in the hedge fund world's crown - our round-up of the news from the nationals.

Less than 1% of complaints made to the financial ombudsman service (FOS) last year were rejected for being frivolous, the organisation said.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Peterborough-based Rockingham Independent £35,000 and imposed partial bans on its directors and an adviser for exposing retirees to unsuitable advice.