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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published warnings to consumers about four trading companies that are not authorised to carry out regulated activities.

Outsource paraplanning company, The Timebank, has doubled its numbers in the last six months and is looking to take on two more staff members.

The recent publication of the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) has bolstered measures to limit "extreme" tax avoidance and will focus governance on tax, experts have said.

The Post Office has launched its first current account posing a serious threat to the stranglehold of the major high street banks.

Luxembourg has bowed to FACTA-style pressure and plans to introduce automatic exchange of information.

Quotation portal Assureweb is rebranding as iPipeline to strengthen links with its parent company.

Standard Life workplace managing director and Vebnet chief executive Ronnie Taylor is joining Scottish Widows.

Global markets soared on Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve inadvertently released minutes from its latest policy meeting five hours earlier than planned.

Tullett Prebon's chief executive Terry Smith wrote a letter to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) back in 2010 to question the rate setting process, but was ignored, the Telegraph reports.

Charles Stanley saw its funds under administration hit a new high in the year to end March 2013, according to its pre-close trading update.