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Peter Hargreaves, executive director of platform giant Hargreaves Lansdown, has revealed the business intends to move all its clients over to clean fee share classes to meet regulatory changes.

HSBC is preparing its first sale of sub-prime loans since the height of the financial crash, as Britain's largest bank begins to off-load more than $40bn (£25bn) of toxic US debt it still holds on its books.

Up to two million people are to have their credit files secretly checked under a crackdown on tax evasion to be unveiled by George Osborne to help raise another £10 billion.

As Chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, we look at some of the main measures he may announce.

Scottish Life has launched its online auto-enrolment proposition, designed to help advisers boost their corporate business.

Professional Adviser and IFAonline reader David Horsey, of Target Wealth Management, has won the Investec Structured Products sports kit competition.

The main distributor of the suspended Axiom Legal Financing fund is urging investors to sack the fund's directors with immediate effect.

Millions of people avoid talks about finances with their spouse for fear the conversation will get heated, according to Prudential.

The IMA has been questioning fund groups over their exposure to currencies in their fixed income funds, with the view to tightening sector definitions.

The Financial Services Authority's (FSA) plan to raise the amount of capital self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers have to hold will spur further consolidation in the market, the chairman of Mattioli Woods has said.