The UK has an impressive 99% literacy rate, according to international studies. While this is worthy of praises I suspect the 'financial literacy' rate for the UK is just a fraction of this and the country is poorer as a result.

There was a bit of good news this week in the seemingly never-ending war on scammers and financial crime.

Fairness in pensions is very important, particularly when it comes to the State Pension. It is sadly, increasingly missing from Government pension policy.

The FCA confirmed some important new appointments this week which suggest that it will be trying to take a tougher line with enforcement in future.