HM Treasury

A Treasury gilt auction failed for the first time in seven years today as investor fears grow on the state of the Government's finances.

As the housing market continues to struggle and the Bank of England Base Rate remains historically low, Matthew Wyles asks how long it will take for the economy to recuperate following these testing times.

UK taxpayers will own as much as 43.5% of the proposed Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘superbank', under the new revised takeover terms.

The IMA has called on the Government to raise the yearly ISA limit to £9,600 - among a number of measures it hopes will boost the UK's investment industry.

Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to appoint Lord Adair Turner as the new FSA chairman, succeeding Sir Callum McCarthy who steps down in September.

Any hopes of an imminent interest rate cut appear extinguished after the UK official annual inflation rate soared to 3% in April.

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners have welcomed the Government's rethink on draft money laundering regulations which would have confused anyone who held their home in a trust.

Ed Balls has agreed to include a revised definition of the term ‘beneficial ownership' in relation to trusts in the draft Money Laundering Regulations, following intense industry lobbying.

HM Treasury has "shot itself in the foot" by refusing to reconsider the borrowing rules introduced on A-Day for buying commercial property through SIPPs, claims Hornbuckle Mitchell.

The Association of IFAs is calling on the National Audit Office to conduct a review of the Financial Services Authority every two years.