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The UK must address a ‘structural failure' in business finance if it is to develop domestic equivalents to the likes of Google or Samsung, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Independent Age, the older people's charity, has opened a freephone number for a new advice service.

A new broker body has been launched in a bid to raise standards of behaviour and practice in the profession.

The government's Help to Buy scheme has triggered over £1bn of new home loans in the first three months since its inception, the Prime Minister has said.

The 14.4 million Grandparents in Britain gave £2.83bn directly to their grandchildren over the last year.

Three new members have been appointed to the Financial Services Consumer Panel.

Consumer group Which? is among four organisations awarded ‘super-complainant' status by the government, meaning it has the power to present complaints to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which must respond.

Life insurer Aviva has announced that it has allocated £500 million for investment in UK infrastructure.

Skandia has ‘fired a shot over the bows of its rivals' with changes to its Critical Illness (CI) plan, according to CIExpert.

The death rate from cancer has dropped by more than a fifth since the 1990s according to analysis from Cancer Research UK.