Fines totalling half a million pounds levelled against the former CEO and a director of failed traded life settlement investment firm Catalyst have been upheld.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided Europe-wide rules on recording client consultations do not require UK financial advisers to tape face-to-face meetings to prove they are acting in clients' best interests.

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has lost almost 60% of its network's member firms in the wake of a decision to kill-off its problem-laden investment advice business.

Annuity businesses Just Retirement and Partnership have announced a merger deal.

The former chairman of the Federal Reserve has warned that the world is entering a bond market bubble.

The City's two watchdog's the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) have publicly censured the Co-operative Bank failings including hiding the truth about its capital position.

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PA speaks to professionals at every level of the IFP membership to find out what they think about it merging with the CISI

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The Money Advice Service (MAS) is helping to launch a £700,000 fund to trial ways children as young as three years old can be taught the tools and information they need to manage their money later in life.