The Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) voted unanimously to keep rates at 0.5% earlier this month.

George Osborne met about 70 staff from the FSA yesterday to discuss Conservative plans for a new regulatory structure for the City.

Former Standard Life head of distribution Peter Jolly is joining the ABI to help channel members to be RDR compliant.

Honister Capital has partnered with Scottish Widows to offer its 1,500 advisers access to Widows' online learning academy as it seeks to fast-track its IFAs to QCF Level 4.

Up to 40,000 businesses could go bust next year, according to a study by Begbies Traynor.

The UK's public sector net borrowing has soared to £77.3bn - the worst figure for the April to September period on record.

Liverpool Victoria and Royal Liver, the two biggest friendly societies, are in merger talks that could lead to a £10billion mutual giant with more than 5million customers.

The Competition Commission's (CC's) proposal to ban point-of-sale payment protection insurance (PPI) has been overturned by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

When a firm goes to the wall the pain is felt by everyone: the advice profession suffers because it reflects badly on the market as a whole; the advisers see all they've worked to achieve for many years slip from their grasp.

Rowanmoor Pensions has launched a guide to SIPP commercial property purchases.