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HMRC plans to publicly name and shame tax dodgers from 1 April.

A year and a half after the depths of the financial crisis, independent financial advisers in the US are slowly shifting client assets out of cash and back into the market.

Aviva's UK life and pensions sales fell 25% in 2009 despite strong global results for the group.

Greece is prepared to turn to the IMF for help if its European neighbours fail to provide the financial assistance it wants after announcing the toughest spending cuts in decades.

The City's leading investment banks are falling over themselves to get a slice of the $700m in fees on offer from Prudential's record $21bn rights issue.

Aegon has launched a tele-claims service allowing customers to file all of their details with the insurer without filling in a single form, which it says could halve the time it takes to pay out on claims.

Canada Life has announced an extension of its CMS+ VIP services (formerly known as CMS+).

Legal & General (L&G) has launched a business protection tool enabling advisers to help firms calculate the value of its 'key people' for insurance purposes.

Barings is to launch a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) fund to tap into the region's growing economies.

Fund managers expect Europe - a forgotten player in investment terms - to emerge a "stronger player" from the Greek debt debacle.