Nine independent financial advisers were among the 35 businesses to pick up a Gold Standard Award 2013.

Life assurer Resolution is in talks over a possible sale of its European private and corporate client wealth planning division, Lombard.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has exacerbated a polarisation of the advisory market, with an almost even split of firms forecasting growth and those predicting static or declining revenues over the next three years, research has suggested.

An amendment to the Care Bill mandating local authorities to refer people approaching care to regulated financial advisers - a proposal originally thrown out by parliament - is to be re-submitted in revised form for consideration by MPs.

Charlie Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has said the Bank has sent a "clear signal" it won't increase interest rates anytime soon as he expressed some surprise at investors' reaction to its position.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed four directors to lead key areas of its supervision division, with Nick Poyntz-Wright heading up its long term savings & pensions unit which includes oversight of wealth management services and investment...

Australian data and software provider IRESS is set to acquire adviser technology provider Avelo for £210m.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says firms are mostly adapting well to changes introduced following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), but it has uncovered some problems, including firms describing themselves as independent but in fact choosing...

More than £10bn has now been returned to payment protection insurance (PPI) policyholders by the banks and building societies that mis-sold it to them, according to the latest figures from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The emergence of a profits-before-ethics culture in financial services skewed employees' view of the industry's purpose and prevented them from challenging immoral behaviour, the Financial Conduct Authority's enforcement boss has said.