Firms trying to expand into new business areas are having to wait 85% longer for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation than two years ago.

Investors have been told to brace themselves for a "painful" adjustment as the money taps pumping liquidity into global markets are turned of in the US and interest rates raised.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to investors about four firms that are unauthorised clones of legitimate businesses.

Pension liberation scams have pushed four people who used them to take their own lives after realising they had lost much of their retirement fund, according to a victims campaigner.

Standard Life has named the national restricted advice business it is building 1825, in reference to the year the life company was founded.

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Aegon UK managing director David Macmillan is leaving the role and the country to take up a promotion with the group's US business.

Crippling FSCS levies: Know why you're paying, know how to stop

Curtis Banks, the specialist self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider, is planning an £85m float on AIM.