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Our weekly heads-up on the articles your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

The first few months of 2014 have seen a gold rally. Will it continue?

The former chief executive of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), Natalie Ceeney, has joined HSBC bank to head up its UK customer standards department.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is urging thousands of small firms affected by the interest rate swaps mis-selling scandal to hurry up with their compensation claims or risk missing out on money due to them.

Banks' redress payments to customers embroiled in the interest rate swap mis-selling scandal surged to £158.6m in December, putting most banks on track to reach their projected review targets.

HSBC is weighing up floating its UK arm, according to reports, ahead of new rules that demand banks ringfence their retail banking operations.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to banks urging them to speed up their review of how interest rate hedging products were sold.

Around 200,000 HSBC customers who bought investments after being advised by sales staff in high street branches could be in line for compensation after a mystery shopping exercise by investigators from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

HSBC has been ordered to pay out $2.46bn by a US court after it lost a class action lawsuit against Household International, the lender it bought pre-crisis.