Standard Chartered has been hit with yet another multi-million dollar fine, after it agreed to pay $300m (£180m) to New York's top banking regulator for failing to improve money laundering controls.

A financial adviser has been jailed for five years for stealing a total of £85,000 from his victims in a theft campaign targeting the elderly and the recently bereaved.

Another Keydata adviser has been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation scheme (FSCS), as it published a new list of 28 advice firms unable to meet claims against them.

Harlequin chairman David Ames is misleading investors into thinking the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) backs a controversial trust he is trying to use to rescue his troubled overseas property scheme - a claim the scheme vehemently denies...

Neil Woodford's St James's Place mandate is in line for a rapid windfall from the manager's investment in Daisy Group after its chief executive said he was plotting a £500m buyout of his own company.

The government has been told it can sue French banking giant Societe Generale for allegedly mis-selling financial products to Northern Rock that were partly to blame for UK lender's collapse.

Nearly half of advisers already have the majority of their recurring revenue coming from fees, according to a FundsNetwork survey, less than two years to go until the April 2016 deadline where all on-platform assets need to be moved to clean share classes...

Savers could be forced to pay inheritance tax while they are still alive, under a new drive against tax avoidance planned by the government.

Lloyds is continuing to pressurise staff to mis-sell credit cards, loans and insurance, a leaked email has revealed - just months after the bank was fined £28m for promoting a ruthless sales culture.

Aviva UK has reported a 21% drop in the value of new life business it wrote in the first half of the year, mainly due to a steep fall in annuity business.