The FSA has fined County Down mortgage intermediary Case Funding Centre (CFC) £35,000 for failures which led to at least 16 fraudulent mortgage applications being submitted to lenders.
New Star's £741m UK Property fund has made its first purchase in over two years, a £10.5m retail unit in Chichester.
Transact has posted bumper profits and increased its dividend ahead of the platform's planned flotation.
Interest rates have been held at 0.5% for the eleventh consecutive month today.
Merchant Investors (MI) has partnered with Royal London 360° to offer its first offshore bond.
Advisers are being warned ‘alternative' assessment methods proposed by the FSA as a different route to QCF level four will be just as rigorous as written exams.
UK house prices climbed 1% in December compared with the previous month, marking the sixth consecutive month-on-month increase, according to the Halifax.
Miners are pulling down London's main index in early trading, offsetting strong demand for supermarket groups.
Jerry Levin, who sold Time Warner to AOL, has described the $124bn deal as the 'worst of the century', but it's a crown for which there is plenty of competition, the Telegraph writes.
Former Invesco Perpetual CEO Mike Webb will take over as chief executive of Rathbone Unit Trust Management, replacing Peter Pearson Lund.