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Ten top members of staff at Lloyds Banking Group have been sent to London's Comedy School to improve their leadership skills.

A group of Arch Cru investors have obtained figures which show the extent of the losses suffered by the fund range in the run up to its suspension.

A former Nursing Home Fees Agency (NHFA) adviser has scoffed at banking giant HSBC's attempts to distance itself from a mis-selling scandal which led to almost 2,500 pensioners being sold unsuitable investment bonds.

MPs have questioned the role of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) since other master trust pension schemes have entered the market.

The expected consolidation of providers in the SIPP market is being held up by fears over increased capital adequacy requirements, a provider has said.

The pursuit by the FSCS and FSA of advisers who recommended Keydata products looks set to create a domino effect that will cascade far and wide.

New proposals relating to marketing rules on venture capital funds as well as new regulations allowing the managers of social investment funds to market them across Europe will help finance European growth.

Whereas payment protection insurance (PPI) has floundered in the UK market, on mainland Europe loan and credit card payment protection insurance is "alive and well," reports research consultancy Finaccord.

Lloyds Banking Group's chief executive António Horta-Osório is having to reapply for his own job as doctors prepare to give him the go-ahead to return to work from sick leave.

Regulators should be given greater powers to block hostile bank takeovers in order to avoid a future crisis like the one that forced Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS's) into a £45bn taxpayer bail-out, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA)...