Regulation

Vince Cable has backed the extension of preferential lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), threatening banks with penalties if they fail to provide loans to good businesses.

The coalition government will not bring a speedier resolution for Equitable policyholders

AIFA has rejected an application by the IFA Defence Union's Evan Owen to replace Chris Cummings as director general.

A personal banker with Barclays in Bristol has been given a three year jail sentence after stealing £300,000 from two customers' accounts to buy himself a house.

British taxpayers stand to make a £5bn profit from insuring the toxic assets of RBS and Lloyds, despite not yet having paid a penny.

Two men have been jailed over a boiler room scam in which they creamed off 80% of the invested funds.

Claims against life and pensions intermediaries fell by a quarter last year according to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Sitanta Ni Mathghamhna looks at why risk management should be a top priority for advisers.

Daniel Harrison says advisers are moving from national and network propositions to become directly authorised. And he thinks he knows why…

Auditors are too trusting of managers' explanations of financial reporting when looking into company accounts, the Audit Inspection Committee (AIU) says.