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Sustainable and well regulated growth in financial services could generate an additional 265,000 jobs and boost GDP by between 2% and 3% by 2020, a report from PwC has found.

This week on IFAonline.co.uk, we've had Northern Rock sales, Barclays fines and adviser numbers. But how much do you remember?

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is to compensate savers affected by the collapse of Birmingham-based credit union CommuniSave.

Private equity investor HgCapital has become a majority shareholder in software provider IntelliFlo after making an undisclosed investment through its Mercury fund.

Adviser support group, Tenet, has launched an in-house paraplanning service, enabling members who do not have the requirement for a full time paraplanner to out-source technical research and report writing.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned and fined former insurance broker Paul Cable £140,000 for misleading a client into thinking they had taken out an insurance policy when they hadn't.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive has said he is happy with the outcome of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) but is still worried about the way advisers charge fees, especially if they are based on a percentage of assets.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley has said he "can't commit" to lowering advisers' regulatory fees, despite a marked drop in practitioner numbers.

The Cass Business School and BNY Mellon have just completed a wide-ranging piece of research into the impact of the Retail Distribution Review on the UK's financial market. Here IFAonline breaks down the key findings from the report.

Advisers "substantially underestimate" the threat from direct to consumer (D2C) businesses and are "overoptimistic" about future revenues post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to a wide ranging study by Cass Business School and BNY Mellon....