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Gilliat Financial Solutions has launched two products offering investors the choice of investing via a deposit structure or a capital protected structure.

Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) exited the advice market because the advent of the retail distribution review (RDR) meant it needed to invest £50m in a business it described as "becoming increasingly sub-scale".

It drew a gasp from the room full of financial advisers when it was shown to them yesterday.

A financial adviser for Lloyds TSB who took almost £140,000 from his children's school and from his clients has been jailed for 18 months.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

A new joint committee of six MPs and six peers is to enquire about consumer responsibility under the new 'twin peaks' regulatory system as it begins its pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Financial Services Bill (FSB).

National IFA Moneygate has acquired London-based adviser Equus Independent Financial Management for an undisclosed sum.

Standard Life today said 39 jobs may be at risk as it moves to streamline its retail, corporate, risk and marketing divisions.

A commission has been launched to look at improving dignity and care to older patients in hospitals and care homes.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned and fined two directors of an IFA firm for giving unsuitable advice on unregualted collective investment schemes (UCIS).