Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Reviewing FOS reviews, investing in Brexit Britain and locating your inner Tigger - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

'The Financial Ombudsman failed us - now we want our cases reviewed' Telegraph readers have been calling for the Ombudsman to review their cases after last week's Dispatches documentary appeared to show undertrained staff and others issues with the service. Among concerns flagged by the programme was the suggestion claimants could lose out because it is easier for the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to let them down, rather than persuade a business to pay up if the decision went against it. This Telegraph article focuses on the issues reader Donald Kelly and his wife Patricia have wi...

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