Wealth managers

Odey Asset Management has blasted a bid for trading platform Plus500, the second largest holding on James Hanbury's CF Odey Absolute Return fund, calling the move "opportunistic".

Financial Conduct Authority chief Martin Wheatley has supported the asset management industry's claim that it does not pose a threat to financial stability.

HSBC has confirmed it is planning to cut up to 25,000 jobs, including 8,000 posts in the UK, to target annual savings of up to $5bn (£3.3.bn).

Eight men have been convicted for their roles running an unauthorised investment scheme which lost 110 investors more than £4.3m.

Some of the largest British banks have launched a review to determine whether allegedly corrupt payments involving football officials have passed through their books.

HMRC has said it will pursue users and promoters of an "aggressive" tax avoidance scheme run by high flying recruitment business Anderson Group.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) could up the amount of easily accessible cash advisers have to hold a percentage of their yearly investment advice earnings, in a bid to stop firms failing in the face of a "normal" level of complaints.

The Investment Association (IA) is considering campaigning for corporate pay reform, according to Sky News.

Stewart Ford is seeking £650m in damages from the financial regulator and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for "causing" the collapse of Keydata, the investment firm he founded and which attracted almost £500m of investors' capital.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking to fine former Keydata chief executive Stewart Ford £75m and ban him from any role in financial services for failings related to the investments' sales and, ultimately, failure.