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The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched 12 ETFs providing exposure to monthly leveraged and euro currency hedged indices.

Paul Burgin discovers the benefits of inflation-linked structured products.

Poor knowledge of the system of lasting powers of attorney (LPA) has left many pensioners seeking long-term care facing delays and other problems, solicitors say.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is making its first foray into retail fund management with the launch of cautious managed and balanced managed portfolios.

Kaupthing approved loans worth €2bn (£1.69bn) for Alisher Usmanov, the billionaire behind Arsenal FC, less than two weeks before the Icelandic bank went bust.

Goldman Sachs is lifting the £1m bonus cap imposed on its 100 London-based partners last year as the firm begins to hand out multi-million pound payouts to staff around the world.

The FSA has fined RBS and NatWest a total of £2.8m for customer complaint failings after finding the banks responded inadequately to more than half the gripes it reviewed.

An analysis the FSA ordered from PwC into what went wrong at RBS cost more than £7.6m, according to a Freeedom of Information (FOI) request.

FSA chairman Adair Turner may ask the government for the power to block hostile buyouts in the banking sector in a bid to prevent aggressive acquisitions from disrupting financial stability.

The government will allow UK banks to pay out billions of pounds in bonuses this year, despite its calls to curb the payments, according to reports.