Paul Hudson, CEO of Cirencester Friendly, welcomes recent FSA proposals to exempt certain Holloway-style protection products from the RDR's fee-charging and professionalism rules, but insists there is still work to be done.

Barclays tore up every TCF rule in the book to flog the two Aviva funds linked to today's record-breaking FSA fine. But shockingly, this is not an isolated case of negligent advice from major financial institutions and the big question is who will be next in the firing line?

The FSA has fined Barclays £7.7m, the highest imposed for retail failings, for poor investment advice linked to the sale of two Aviva funds, and has secured £60m in redress for customers.

Inflation edged closer towards 4% in December as the rising cost of food and oil products continued to hit the price of goods and services.

Northern Rock will begin seeking out potential bidders today in the first tentative steps towards returning bailed-out banks to private ownership.

Goldman Sachs, the US bank which first coined the term BRICS, has issued a short-term alert on China and India over inflation fears.

Mark Hoban has dismissed calls for a cross-party group of MPs to have the power of veto over who gets the top job at the powerful new Consumer Protection and Markets Authority (CPMA).

The BoE risks making the UK's debt problem bigger if it raises rates above 0.5% in the near-term to tackle "one-off" inflationary pressures, says the head of portfolio management at Prudential.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pledged to reveal 2,000 individuals and companies guilty of some of the $20trn of offshore tax avoidance, after a Swiss whistleblower handed him a list today.

The Approved Judgement from the judicial review into the FSCS's decision to levy investment advisers for the costs of Keydata claims has been published. IFAonline has a copy and here are 14 things you should know...