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An RDR-ready qualification aimed at experienced advisers and which could take just one day to complete is set to be launched.

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations - detailing massive potential tax evasion - will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London today by Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, two days before...

Important members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition in Germany are resisting plans for an increase in the EU's bail-out fund to protect Spain from contagion, complicating a crucial meeting of EU finance ministers on Monday.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could be merged with a proposed National Crime Agency (NCA) as ministers target corporate corruption and fraud gangs which cost the UK £30bn a year.

Commodities enthusiasts are investing five years too late although gold may still be worth buying, according to Fidelity's Anthony Bolton.

Simplyhealth has launched a new cash plan aimed at people aged 70 and over.

Close Asset Management has launched its new range of discretionary funds on HSBC's Select platform.

AXA Wealth International has appointed Prudential's Tony Kisby as international development manager.

Voyant UK has appointed Gary Shepherd as director of sales for Voyant Adviser technology solutions.

The recession has seen spending on private dentistry fall for the first time on record, according to Laing and Buisson's Dentistry UK Market Report 2011, yet dental plans are ever more popular.