Rathbones must find £3.6m to cover its share of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy, including £3.2m arising from the failure of Keydata and others.

The FSA has fined Barclays Capital Securities £1.12m for failing to protect and segregate client money held in sterling money market deposits for over eight years.

Martin Weale has called for an immediate 0.25% increase in the Bank of England (BoE) base interest rate, echoing the view of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hawk Andrew Sentance.

Millions risk losing out on their state pension because they have not been credited with paying £1.2bn in National Insurance (NI).

The FSA has earmarked Keydata-style traded life policies as a product "generally unsuitable for the mainstream retail market".

The FSA wants the power to ban financial products, cap prices and add risk warnings to products, in a "radical rethink" of consumer protection rules.

Stuart Gulliver, HSBC's new chief executive, has dropped plans to relocate from London to Hong Kong, just days after an announcement that UK bank reforms would be watered down.

The Plain English Campaign (PEC) has been fighting gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information since 1979. Judging by last week's RDR professionalism paper it still has work to do at the FSA.

Caerus Wealth Management, former Openwork CEO Keith Carby's new advice and fund management venture, has received the investment backing of Dutch industrialist and financier, Hubert-Lance Huet.

Tidjane Thiam, group CEO for Prudential, is to chair the G20 High Level Panel for Infrastructure Investment until the November 2011 G20 Summit.