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Arch cru investors want to know why Capita won't be fined like 27 other firms who they say failed in the same way. Levy paying IFAs should want to know too.

UK banks were not among the eight institutions to fail the European stress tests on the sector.

Hector Sants, the current chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and Bank of England governor Mervyn King have been named among the most influential people in the European capital markets.

The darkest days of the recession following the financial crisis in late 2008 may be behind us but for Britain's small firms it's not safe to relax quite yet.

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Two of the banking industry's biggest names were paid more than fifteen times their 2009 earnings last year, analysis suggests.

LV= will allow its SIPP customers to use Barclays Stockbrokers' execution-only trading platform to invest their pension assets.

Barclays will pay out compensation to all customers it sold payment protection insurance (PPI) who made a complaint before 20 April.

AWD Chase de Vere has taken on 17 advisers who previously worked for now-defunct Barclays Financial Planning.

A group of 55 economists believes the Monetary Policy Committee will maintain interest rates at 0.5% this week, as manufacturing and services surveys show the UK economy is slowing.