Advisers waiting for 'alternative' assessments for obtaining QCF Level 4 could be hampering their chances of being qualified before the RDR deadline, Zurich UK Life's intermediary sales director Richard Howells says.

Lloyds Banking Group could be about to sell its entire stake in St James's Place.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is rejecting some non-Isa claims linked to Keydata.

Alistair Darling yesterday insisted Labour would not hold a second Budget should it win the general election and ruled out a rise in VAT, dismissing Conservative claims that this week's Budget would be "window dressing".

Pointon York has begun raising capital to break into the corporate SIPP market, it confirmed this morning.

Fraudster Bernie Madoff was hospitalised after an attack by a fellow inmate, according to reports.

Beleaguered RBS is to pay out a pension even larger than Sir Fred Goodwin's controversial £12.3m retirement pot.

A former employee of Lloyds Banking Group has accused the bank of artificially inflating its profits by almost £1bn through the use of aggressive tax-avoidance schemes and exotic "Lehman- style" offshore deals which he said amounted to false accounting....

A glimmer of light at last at the end of the Equitable Life tunnel Tuesday evening saw yet another debate on Equitable Life in the House of Commons.

UK Government borrowing was lower than expected in February at £12.4bn.