The industry is split on the merits of the Treasury Select Committee's (TSC) key recommendation to delay the RDR for 12 months until 1 January 2014.
Average UK house prices are unlikely to recover to their previous peak levels until around 2020, according to analysis by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC).
PwC warns the austerity budget will cause job losses of 500,000 in both the public and private sectors.
Keydata founder Stewart Ford has accused administrators Dan Schwarzmann and Mark Batten from PwC of conflict of interest in dealing with the collapsed investment firm.
The transition to adviser charging is increasingly focussing advisers' attention ahead of the RDR deadline while concern over qualifications wanes, according to research from L&G.
Auditors are too trusting of managers' explanations of financial reporting when looking into company accounts, the Audit Inspection Committee (AIU) says.
The FSA has referred PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for investigation after failing to spot "serious" banking failures at J.P.Morgan.
Life insurance companies saw a sharp drop in profitability in Q4 2009, despite higher new business values for the first time in over two years.
Lehman Brothers' creditors will have to wait to have assets totaling almost $9bn returned to them after the UK courts today dismissed an appeal to speed up the recovery process.
There is a one in three chance house prices could be significantly lower by the end of the decade than they are today, a new study has claimed.