Software giant Google has bought UK price comparison website BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m ($61m) as it expands into the sector specific search market.

Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) building society has its back against the wall this morning after the FOS ordered it to compensate a customer exposed to Keydata products, in a case victims say mimics hundreds of others.

Axa's head of pensions will leave the life company today after his team was split in Resolution's part buyout of the business.

Three out of five fee-charging IFAs bill clients between £150 and £200 an hour for advice, research by threesixty suggests.

Dev Malle, sales and marketing director at Personal Touch Financial Services, discusses why buy-to-let has become such an important part of the UK market.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has launched an inquiry into the Bank of England's (BoE) accountability before its powers are extended in the government's regulatory shake-up.

Inheritance tax (IHT) should undergo a full-scale review and parts of business capital gains tax (CGT) could be overhauled in a widespread shake-up of the UK tax system.

The FSA's frontline staff have enjoyed average salary rises of 22% in the past five years, as the watchdog has beefed up its supervision and enforcement divisions.

Aviva has boosted its UK profits by 21%, led by higher sales in the life and pensions business.

The FSCS has declared Welcome Financial Services (WFS), the loan advice firm, in default after it admitted it could not pay compensation claims linked to payment protection insurance (PPI) sales.