HM Treasury

The government will link the public sector retirement age to the state pension age (SPA), which will rise to 66, it is expected to confirm today.

The government is set to force banks to ring-fence their retail operations from investment banking.

The bank holiday may have provided a little respite, but it was still a busy week in the world of financial advice...

ISAs have failed low income workers with inadequate savings and only benefit people who would have saved anyway, a think tank claims.

Michael Ellam, managing director of the Treasury's international and finance directorate, has been appointed chairman of the EU's financial services regulation committee.

The government has admitted it cannot predict the impact of Solvency II capital requirements on consumer prices.

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

Billy Mackay examines the issues surrounding early access to pensions and asks whether it is really a good idea

Rural communities risk being cut off from financial advice as their IFAs exit the industry under the weight of the RDR and levy hikes, MPs were told today.

The ABI has given its backing to the Treasury's simplified products proposal and highlighted the need for a government supported replacement to payment protection insurance (PPI).