The Treasury is concerned the EU directive MiFID II will distort the UK advice market by restricting the commission ban to independent advisers.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it is possible no-one is responsible for Arch cru investors' losses.

George Osborne is set to face tough questions today about the coalition government's economic strategy after the Bank of England expanded quantitative easing by £75bn, a move he has previously called "the last resort of desperate governments".

Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chief executive of US technology giant Apple, has died at the age of 56.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has restarted its review of Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) funding, with a view to formally consult in the first half of 2012.

Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd as a non-executive director.

Kweku Adoboli, an ETF trader at UBS, is suspected of unauthorised trading which cost the bank £1.3bn. But UBS is far from alone in suffering the sting of internal fraud, as this gallery of the world's most infamous rogue traders shows...

Forward-looking company reports on pay and bonuses should be introduced to help resolve concerns over large rewards, Robert Talbut, chief investment officer of Royal London Asset Management has proposed.

Three years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Laura Miller revisits the shocking events and asks if any lessons have been learned.

Home secretary Theresa May has written to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme about its decision to compensate some Lehman-backed NDFA structured products but not others.