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Confidence in the financial services industry has dramatically improved in the last quarter, with life insurers and investment managers "particularly bullish", a poll shows.

Lawyers for professional services group RSM Tenon have raised "serious concerns" about the quality of PwC's audit and advised Tenon may have a legal claim, according to reports.

Government plans to hike the income tax threshold to £9,205 could complicate the roll-out of auto-enrolment, experts have warned.

The potential reform of pensions tax relief could provide several opportunities for advice.

Concerns have been raised about the role of auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) after financial uncertainties arose at accountancy and advisory group RSM Tenon.

Insurance brokers and life companies will attempt to cross-sell to existing customers in order to compensate for "downbeat" market conditions in 2012, research suggests.

Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been fined £1.4m for failing to spot client money handling errors at J.P.Morgan bank.

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

Financial services will cut a further 8,000 jobs over the next three months, as the sector struggles under increasingly negative future prospects, according to a survey out today.

The European Commission is pushing for tough rules that would force the world's biggest accountancy firms to abandon their consultancy businesses and share audit work with smaller rivals.