Platform cites the recent FSA Mortgage Market Review Paper as the reason for its planned withdrawal from the self-certification market at the end of the week.

The newly-launched trade body for English-speaking independent advisers operating across Europe has reached the 100-member milestone.

Britons are more pessimistic about their standard of living improving than they were five years ago, research suggests.

The Church of England has refuted media reports that its pension scheme had succumbed to the "cult of equity" after investing all its assets in equities in the late 90s.

HSBC says it will cut 1,700 jobs in the UK.

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) has announced the launch of a new qualification, the first dedicated to trusts and estate planning.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds have both agreed to defer bonuses in return for an additional £40bn of taxpayers' money as part of a deal with the Government that will break up two of Britain's biggest lenders.

Aviva Investors has added a discretionary dilution levy fee to its Isa wrapper following a switch in the fund's administrators in September.

New York will regain its status as the leading financial centre in the world, a study suggests.

US authorities took possession of nine failed banks on Friday, the largest single day haul since the beginning of the financial crisis.