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Prime minister David Cameron and German chancellor Angela Merkel are set to clash over a proposed financial transaction tax on Friday.

An index that ranks countries on both wealth and well-being shows Slovenia, Czech Republic and Poland outperforming so-called PIGS countries. France is also showing a decline similar to the PIGS.

Markets moved lower on Monday as fears over Greece and Italy remained despite the imminent formation of a Greek coalition government.

The European Commission's draft Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II would, if implemented, ban platforms from issuing fees to discretionary fund managers (DFMs), which would have to come direct from clients.

Slovakia has stalled in ratifying measures to revamp the eurozone's European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) rescue fund, intensifying the threat of contagian within the continent.

Dire data from households and its impact on retailers, strike action talks, heads roll at UBS, and advice from the PM to Britain to reject "can't do sogginess" for the drive of China. Our round-up up of the nationals.

Insurers have been given another year to become compliant with Solvency II (SII), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced today.

The cost of auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes will wipe out almost all of the savings made by the government's regulation bonfire.

The Treasury Select Committee has today published the terms of reference for its inquiry into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and is calling for evidence on how the new regulator should be interacting with the industry and using its intervention...

Every time the NHS comes under pressure in the UK, the voices for a move to a co-payment system supported by private medical insurance (PMI) come to the fore.