Bellpenny, the national wealth manager and IFA acquirer, has acquired Essex-based Personal & Corporate Financial Solutions (PCFS).

A US regulator has sued 16 banks for allegedly manipulating the London interbank offered rate (Libor).

George Osborne has denied ‘insulting' middle-class voters by claiming that making them pay higher tax rates is ‘good for them' because it makes them feel successful - and more likely to back the Tories.

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Profits at Prudential UK fell flat last year, barely upticking from the year before, as the rush to sell onshore investment bonds subsided following the introduction of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

IFG group - parent company to independent wealth managers Saunderson House and self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider James Hay - has sold its IFA arm for £9.1m.

The Co-operative group said it has accepted Euan Sutherland's resignation as chief executive, and that chief financial officer Richard Pennycook will act as interim boss.

More than a million extra middle-income workers will have been dragged into the 40p tax bracket by next year because of George Osborne's plans to boost income for the low-paid.

The state pension age should rise to 70 by 2040 - more than 20 years earlier than scheduled under government changes - the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Lord Adair Turner said last night.