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...

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations - detailing massive potential tax evasion - will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London today by Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, two days before...

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could be merged with a proposed National Crime Agency (NCA) as ministers target corporate corruption and fraud gangs which cost the UK £30bn a year.

FSA chief executive Hector Sants has won a seat on the management board of the new European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), with two more senior FSA staff taking key roles at other EU watchdogs.