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HBoS staff have been reassured they will experience little immediate change when the firm is taken over by Lloyds TSB next week., reports The Guardian.

2008 was a fairly tumultuous one in the protection industry in terms of product innovation. But which do you think will be the most influential in the long-run?

Regulatory authorities in India have ordered an inquiry into PriceWaterhouseCoopers' auditing of Satyam, the company at the heart of the country's biggest ever alleged fraud, which commentators are calling India's Enron, reports The Telegraph.

The European Central Bank has deemed Britain unfit for monetary union even if it wants to join following the dramatic slide in sterling and the explosion in the UK budget deficit, reports The Telegraph.

Ten days before his arrest, Bernard Madoff received $250m from a man who helped give him his start on Wall Street, a move that shows how the investment manager tried to raise cash to stave off his firm's collapse, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Politicians on Capitol Hill yesterday questioned whether America's main financial regulator has any future as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) came under renewed attack for missing what is believed to be the world's biggest fraud, reports...

The role of America's federally regulated banks in the $50bn Bernard Madoff investment scandal has come into question after it emerged that a number of victims of his alleged Ponzi scheme thought they had invested their money with an ordinary bank, The...

Investment guru Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has been hit with its worst annual performance in 30 years with a 32pc fall.

The retirement arena is complicated and not without its fair share of jargon. The Retirement Planner jargon buster aims to explain the facts behind these terms and will be updated on a regular basis.

Legal & General (L&G) is encouraging brokers to investigate client databases and contact those who h...