Criminals stole £1.28bn through payment fraud in 2025, an increase of 4%, according to banking body UK Finance, with investment fraud accounting for £222m of losses, up 40% year on year.

The number of complaints made to HMRC about delays and mistakes surged 66% to 12,670 last year as taxpayers spent more than 550 years between them trying to sort things out with the tax office.

Chartered Financial Planner Warren Shute is celebrating 20 years of Lexington Wealth Management, the Cotswolds-based firm he founded with his wife Nicky.

Chris Hulatt, co-founder of the Octopus Group, was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in The King’s Birthday Honours List.

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Standard Life said it has handed carers charities £1.1m in the past two years as part of its Caring for Carers campaign.

AAF Financial Planning Europe, a new specialist firm focused on British expatriates in Europe, has launched today.

Herts-based crowd-funding platform Business Agent Ltd, trading as NextCrowd and NextFin (FRN: 669880), has been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Transact has unveiled the new Flexible Reversionary Trust (FRT) which it says will help advisers prepare for the April 2027 IHT changes when unused pension funds will be subject to IHT.

One Labour MP has come up with an idea for early access to State Pensions for the under-40s which some have labelled as crazy. But is it really that off the wall?