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The IMA has distanced itself from earlier proposals to launch a judicial review into the funding of the FSCS, as it looks at "other options" to tackle the levy on behalf of its members.

Who moved where in another busy week in financial services?

A widowed pensioner in Birmingham is finally pocketing £60,000 in previously unclaimed benefits.

Maria Nemeth joins the paraplanner.com's Martin Vaughan and threesixty business consultant Phil Billingham as speakers at the IFP's inauguaral paraplanner conference in May.

Five companies involved in unscrupulous property investment schemes which cost victims over £280,000 have been forced into liquidation following a government investigation.

A former Bluefin IFA is being sued for £300,000 by his former employers over claims he poached clients.

HMRC plans to suspend online access for the public at the end of the tax year, despite admitting to MPs this week that its telephone-based service is "not acceptable".

Europe's biggest banks must fully disclose their exposure to sovereign debts, as part of a new round of stricter stress tests.

The G7 nations are intervening in currency markets for the first time since 2000, on fears a crippled Japanese economy and political upheaval in the Middle East could combine to derail the global recovery.

Riskier assets are delivering a rebound on hopes the Japanese authorities are taking control of the crisis hit country, countering renewed concern about Libya which is again boosting the oil price.