This week's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group to discuss the impact of the RDR on IFAs attracted a lot of interest from MPs and a full public gallery

The Monetary Policy Committee's (MPC) Adam Posen has warned the Bank it should not try to compensate for its past mistakes in underestimating inflation by pushing up interest rates.

Britain's financial system is vulnerable to increased EU sovereign debt woes and bubbles in emerging market assets and junk bonds, the Bank of England (BoE) says.

Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has admitted receiving a number of approaches from rivals this year keen to take over the firm, or take a significant stake.

The RDR qualifications deadline is a "guillotine" on the careers of advisers and the FSA should be flexible on its implementation, AIFA director general Stephen Gay told MPs last night.

A group of 71 investors are threatening to sue law firm ELS International Lawyers LLP over claims its predecessor firm European Legal Solutions SL gave negligent advice on Spanish property investments.

The FSA has turned the tables on boiler room conmen by cold calling the scammers to warn them off using the same tactic to cheat investors.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has written to FSA chairman Adair Turner asking him to make the findings of the investigation into bailed-out RBS public.

The Financial Ombudsman Service is an opaque consumer champion which ignores the law when reaching its verdicts. Not so, according to the FOS.

Bank governor Mervyn King plotted a secret bailout of the world banking system using funds from four cash-rich nations, including the UK, in March 2008, according to a US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks.