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Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded the UK to AA+ from AAA, citing a weaker economic and fiscal outlook.

Product providers are split on whether RDR is having a positive effect on their business according to research from Dunstan Thomas.

A former Honister Partners adviser charged with evading tax was sentenced to 18 month's imprisonment today following a case brought by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Representatives of the troubled overseas property sales agent Harlequin Property are set to meet investors next week. Here are the questions those with some £200m in the scheme will be putting to Harlequin and urgently want answered.

It will come as little surprise to readers of IFAonline.co.uk that most of your peers believe Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and now the highly-paid head of compliance at Barclays Bank, was misguided...

In this Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Is the rise of annuity self-service websites a good thing for consumers?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reached an agreement with Santander UK that will see the bank contact over 270,000 mortgage customers about unclear information it gave before increasing the cap on its standard variable rate (SVR) in 2008.

A breakaway movement of platforms pushing for special share classes could create a ‘cartel' between bigger firms, according to Axa Elevate.

Artemis has appointed Henderson's Paul Casson to work alongside Tim Steer, amid a reshuffle at the group which has seen Stephen Yiu exit.

Compensation and refunds related to mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) have reached £9.3bn, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.