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Consumers are becoming more confident in shunning specialist financial advice and purchasing financial products online, according to new research.

Labour MP Russell Brown has accused the government of trying to "sweep the failures of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) under the carpet", after it refused a parliamentary debate into the regulatory oversight of those managing the failed Arch cru...

Markets have remained down this afternoon as the negative reaction to European bank stress tests continue to drag on the FTSE 100.

Holloway Friendly has launched a new adviser website including a range of tools to aid the application process.

The Legal Ombudsman said it is unable to help thousands of people in disputes over unregulated services such as will writing and family law.

A proposals to delay the RDR by 12 months to give financial advisers more time to meet its rules appeared, initially, to receive a mixed response.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) should increase salaries by 50% at its successor agencies in order to prevent employees moving in to the private sector, according to one headhunting consultancy.

The RDR finally gets some column inches in the mainstream media, while fund managers are becoming increasingly cautious in a particularly volatile bull market. It's IFAonline's round-up of the weekend's national newspapers...

Ireland's international financial services industry has mapped out sufficient growth to create 10,000 new jobs over the next five years. Identifying seven drivers underpinning this strategy, the Irish government says they are all critical in ensuring...

Prudential will team up with The Children's ISA to launch one of the UK's first Junior ISA (JISA) schemes, which replace the scrapped Child Trust Funds.