The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to defer its capital adequacy requirements on personal investment firms (PIFs) - which were due to kick in at the end of this year - by a further two years, and will use the time to review its entire approach to...

Labour will reverse a planned rise in business rates for small firms if it wins the next election, party leader Ed Miliband is expected to say today.

Partnership Life Assurance Company, part of the Partnership Assurance Group, has confirmed it is the subject of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into potentially unsuitable distribution agreements with advisory firms.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is not seeking to pile more pressure on adviser firms already under financial strain by investigating payments they may receive from providers, its director responsible for supervising advisers said.

It is 'possible' the coalition government could break up before the next general election in 2015, according to Vince Cable.

The shortlists for the Aberdeen UK Platform Awards 2013 have been announced. We start with the nominees for the big one: Platform of the Year...

The future of the UK economy may not be as bright as some have predicted, with the weakest recovery in 'industrial history' limiting annual growth to 1% in the longer term, according to a thinktank.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined the scenarios in which the payment of cash rebates from providers to consumers can continue after a wider ban comes into force next year.

The former chief executive of The Co-operative Bank yesterday accused his successors of taking their "eye off the ball" ahead of the lender's failed bid to buy more than 600 Lloyds branches, a move which deepened a £1.5bn capital hole in its accounts....

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) handled more than 327,000 complaints in the first half of the year, a record for the organisation, figures published today show.