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.
The FSA has appointed three more non-executive directors to the strategic board of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), as it prepares for an avalanche of extra claims over Payment Protection Insurance and a series of investment company failures.
Kaupthing approved loans worth €2bn (£1.69bn) for Alisher Usmanov, the billionaire behind Arsenal FC, less than two weeks before the Icelandic bank went bust.
Tax bosses are facing an inquiry into how they strike deals with multinationals following accusations that Vodafone was let off a £6bn bill.
Lifemark must find $11m from its dwindling coffers to repay with interest a £1.5m loan from Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) and $7.5m from CarVal, as both companies back out of providing longer-term funding.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has hit RBS with a fine for £28.59m for breaching anti-competition rules by disclosing its pricing information to rival Barclays.
The FSA's refusal to extend the timetable for meeting its professionalism rules, published today, hands a competitive advantage to large firms and banks, says Harriett Baldwin MP.
FSA accredited bodies will be allowed to continue checking a sample of just 10% of advisers' CPD to verify standards of professionalism.