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Special advisers to the Treasury Select Committee have revealed they felt compelled to press the Financial Services Authority to better scrutinise its role in the downfall of Royal Bank of Scotland.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will more than quadruple its income from fines of self-assessment taxpayers after a rule change.

A new atlas of the NHS has been produced highlighting variations in coverage of 71 different treatment areas across the country.

Axa, Allianz and Aviva groups are among 15 insurers that Standard & Poors (S&P) have warned face a downgrade in their credit rating.

Adviser Philippa Gee has said she has taken on more clients in the last six months who have suffered past mis-selling than she has come across at any time in her 20 year career.

The FSA's "deficient" supervision of banks in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis was partly down to the diversion of senior managers' attention toward matters seen as more pressing at the time, such as the retail distribution review (RDR) and Equitable...

Novia has appointed Sally Stephens, formerly of Skandia, as head of operations.

Doctors have called on the Competition Commission (CC) to expand the private healthcare market study to include the operations of private medical insurance (PMI).

Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has called for the Financial Services Authority to be accountable over its intervention into the traded life settlement investment industry, which the trade body said has caused "real consumer detriment"....