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Andrew Dines, chartered financial planner at AAB Wealth, discusses why the impact of coronavirus on the stock market need not alter your long-term goals. With the UK in lockdown and pressure on the NHS mounting, COVID-19 is set to exert an enormous influence on our lives over the coming months.

Alistair Greig, the financial services chief behind a £13 million Ponzi scheme, has been jailed for 14 years. 

UK Finance has published comprehensive guidance for self-isolating financial services customers seeking to pay for essential goods.

Manufacturing output expectations dropped to their weakest since the financial crisis, as the COVID-19 outbreak gained pace in the UK and Europe, according to the latest CBI monthly industrial trends survey conducted between 25 February and 13 March.

Accountant, business and financial advisor Armstrong Watson has acquired Eura Audit Northallerton. The merger took effect on 3rd February and comes after Eura Audit partner, Peter Tarren, made the decision to retire and carefully sought a practice that would provide a good cultural fit for his

Stonewall has released its Top 100 Employers 2020 listing with financial organisations featuring making the cut.

Scotland’s growing financial technology sector has become the first in the UK, and only the third in Europe, to receive formal accreditation as a cluster of excellence. The European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA) looked at 36 economic indicators before making the award.

The Pensions Regulator has fined the retirement scheme of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in a rare instance of one watchdog issuing a fine to another.

Andrew Bailey, the current chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has been appointed as the next governor of the Bank of England. Mr Bailey will become the 121st governor of the bank on 16 March 2020.

Apple is currently facing an investigation by New York's financial regulator after complaints were filed that its Apple Card gives men more credit than women.

HSBC has launched a trade finance API which allows partner financial organisations and their clients observe the status of their bank guarantees in real-time, from their own platforms. The bank guarantee API is now being tested by ING and Standard Bank and it will allow partners to create their own

Remaining invested in the FTSE 100 for 10 years generates a positive return 98 per cent of the time for UK investors, new analysis from Willis Owen has revealed.  The investment platform looked at the total return of the FTSE 100 over a decade on a rolling monthly basis since January

A flood of thousands of complaints have been lodged with law firms and the Financial Ombudsman Service over self-invested personal pensions (Sipps), leaving pension funds facing penalty costs totalling hundreds of millions of pounds. According to The Times newspaper, claims lodged with the ombudsman

CMS has partnered with Young Enterprise (YE) Scotland to extend enterprise and financial education throughout Scotland’s schools and colleges. Under a joint arrangement, CMS will provide pro bono legal support to YE Scotland. In addition, CMS will explore ways it can contribute to the charity&

KPMG has been hit with another multi-million-pound fine from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), over its audits of drinks company Conviviality in 2017. The FRC announced yesterday that it had issued a final decision notice under Audit Enforcement Procedure and imposed sanctions against KPMG