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Former financial services secretary Lord Myners has called for a review into the minimum capital requirements for IFAs not holding client money.

Britain will keep its triple-A credit rating after one of the world's leading ratings agencies said the coalition's austerity measures had done enough to stabilise the public finances.

Consumer insurance for long-term care (LTC) will not solve the problems of social care funding in England and Wales and a hybrid public-private partnership model should be explored instead, according to a new report.

Disability campaigners have hit back at government plans that will see banks pay less than disabled people to cut the national deficit.

Cancer sufferers awaiting chemotherapy and those between courses will now be treated the same as patients already receiving treatment when claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

The City sees a one-in-five chance the Bank of England will raise interest rates today to combat rising inflation.

Legal & General has welcomed government plans to increase access to treatment for mental health conditions and adopt approaches successfully used by group risk providers.

Reforms to public sector pensions have been delayed until summer 2011, the Treasury has confirmed.

Trade union leaders met today to coordinate national strikes on 26 March over cuts to public sector pay and pensions.

Plans to scrap or reform 192 quangos, including the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) and the Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman (PPFO), has been ‘botched' according to MPs.