A member of the AIFA RDR Working Group has launched a public attack on the organisation saying it is disproportionately influenced by pro-fee IFA firms and takes a "Stalinist approach" to crushing dissent.

Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) has agreed to pay compensation directly to all customers it sold Keydata products totalling £57m, exceeding the building society's previous outside estimates for the bill.

Forecasts for corporate earnings growth in Europe and leading emerging markets are being scaled back by analysts.

The "wrong kind of inflation" will mean the government has to borrow significantly more over the medium term than planned, George Osborne will be forced to admit in the Budget.

Households are suffering their biggest drop in living standards for 30 years, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

The Chancellor will use Wednesday's Budget to announce the biggest clampdown on tax avoidance since 2004, raising twice as much as the £500m a year predicted when the initiative was launched last December.

An HMRC policy to target "deliberate tax defaulters" could prompt a wave of human rights cases against the taxman, a City law firm says.

Nationals roundup: Expect calls this week from home flippers, higher-rate tax payers, gifters and last minute ISA hunters.

In the latest Mortgage Solutions poll an overwhelming majority of brokers (69%) said they would categorise their business relationship with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as ‘poor'.

Yorkshire Building Society is in advanced talks to acquire Keydata-claims hit Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) building society, according to reports.