Specialist international financial adviser, The Fry Group, has acquired Belgian company Fulcra International Financial Planning enabling a full-on expansion into Brussels.
Dawn Kendall, multi-manager at Architas, uses historical examples to pinpoint why the European monetary union is bound to fail in its present form.
S&P has downgraded Belgium's credit rating by one notch, to AA from AA+, expressing concerns about funding and market pressures.
Guardian Wealth Management, the international advice firm, will head-hunt 300 IFAs in a major recruitment drive ahead of the RDR, and offer some the chance to escape the rule change by working abroad.
The FSA will be forced to publish a more comprehensive account of its decision to clear RBS directors of wrongdoing.
Financial advisers may be missing a business opportunity, suggests Alliance and Leicester International, as few expatriates save money once they leave the UK despite improved financial positions.