Household finances deteriorated at the fastest pace for four months in April, data from Markit/YouGov suggests.

Standard Life has appointed Jackie Hunt chief financial officer and executive director.

The ranks of businesses awarded chartered status swelled by 23% in 2009, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) reports.

The chief executives of 2plan Wealth Management and Tenet Group are among the senior figures at five major financial advice firms to attack the Liberal Democrats' pension plans.

The Icelandic government has wrenched control of two of the country's bankrupt savings banks after they failed to reach a repayment deal with their creditors.

UK politics is a funny world, inhabited by strange groups that get stranger the more you move towards the fringes.

London's leading shares are showing slight gains this morning as a late recovery on Wall Street boosts investor sentiment.

The FSA has fined Winterflood, the largest market-maker on AIM, and two of its traders £4.25m for market abuses.

Auto-enrolment is opening up a pensions knowledge gap among employers which the industry should be filling warn IFAs.

The Liberal Democrats are enjoying a surge in voter confidence in their ability to improve household finances across Britain, according to a survey by Markit/YouGov.