The government has given its backing to the Money Advice Service (MAS), in spite of growing discontent with the industry-funded operation within Westminster.

Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) chief executive Natalie Ceeney has praised independent financial advisers for their complaints handling, saying they do a better job than larger businesses such as banks.

Lord Flight has continued his broadsides against the Financial Services Authority (FSA), criticising it for taking a "tough guy, macho" approach to compensate for past failures.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) recorded a deficit of almost £154,000 in 2011/12.

Firms offering restricted advice are spreading "propaganda" about the apparent difficulties of meeting the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) new independence rules, according to consultant David Severn, a former head of investment business policy...

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is to change its name to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has proposed the idea of ‘customer agreed liability' as a way of tackling the absence of a 15-year long stop on complaints.

Few consumers think the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is doing a good job, research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) suggests.

More than half of the UK population has never received financial advice or cannot recall receiving any, research from the Money Advice Service (MAS) has suggested.

MPs have continued to heap criticism on the Money Advice Service (MAS), with questions being raised about the lack of focus in its role.