A private client adviser at wealth firm HFM Columbus Asset Management has been charged with the murder of a wealthy socialite, according to reports.

Police have searched International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Christine Lagarde's Paris apartment as part of an investigation into suspected embezzlement, Reuters reports.

Chancellor George Osborne is to tell the electorate this week that his debt plans are in ruins, with the deadline for bringing UK debt down pushed back by many years.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor of the Bank of England, has written to a small business owner to offer his sympathies after the man's own bank refused him a loan.

Royal Bank of Scotland is to make further cuts to its investment bank but is also readying plans for a £5bn share sale in 2014, according to reports.

Proposals for SIPP capital requirements based on assets under administration should be scrapped as it could risk consumer harm, the Association of Member Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS) has told the FSA.

Former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson has called for George Osborne to fully nationalise RBS and criticised the bank's so-called "star" traders.

ICAP, the world's largest inter-dealer broker, has reportedly become a focus of the UK's rate-rigging investigation being carried out by the FSA.

Ignis Asset Management parent Phoenix Group has rejected a number of takeover approaches to buy the fund management business, according to reports.

Fixed income remains popular with investors despite a very recent shift towards equities, but which bonds currently pose the greatest risk to investors?