Labour will refer high street banks to the competition authorities if it is elected in 2015, Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is expected to say in a speech on Friday.

Ex-Financial Services Authority (FSA) chief executive Sir Hector Sants is being courted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a financial taskforce, just two months after leaving a key role at Barclays with "extreme stress and exhaustion".

Davy Private Clients, the Northern Ireland-based wealth management and financial planning division of J&E Davy (Davy), has agreed to acquire Square Seven Financial Planning, part of a two year acquisition spree.

Matthew Moore has left his role as finance director of Aegon-owned advice network Origen Financial Services following a management reshuffle.

A group of Lifemark-backed Keydata bond investors are renewing their efforts to organise a public inquiry into the collapse of the investment scheme nearly five years ago, by lobbying their MPs to act.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is gearing up to interview London-based advisers about their risk assessment processes as it works its way across the country.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is urging thousands of small firms affected by the interest rate swaps mis-selling scandal to hurry up with their compensation claims or risk missing out on money due to them.

Britain's growth rate could reach as high as 4% this year as the recovery accelerates, economists have said.

A crackdown on employers that set up offshore trusts for top earners has started to pay off, helping HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) more than double its takings from investigations into big companies' payroll tax avoidance last year.

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