The Pensions Advisory Service offers free guidance about pensions, and the Consumer Financial Education Body explains the jargon in its Moneymadeclear website.
What's more, he brings with him the ability to seriously influence the future all-important global debate on making the banks safe, because he is the chair of the Financial Stability Board - the senior worldwide financial regulatory body.
Industry body Scottish Financial Enterprise described the move as a "sound endorsement" of Edinburgh as a leading financial services centre.
But the big, indeed clinching, argument for a separate body overseeing financial stability is that the cause might otherwise slip.
The Banking Commission (at 9.30am) has more big name witnesses - Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority and his Managing Director Martin Wheatley, who is also the chief executive officer designate of the replacement body, the Financial Conduct Authority.
This financial year alone, the body says, more than 2, 250 children will be without a reception place.
This new body, with financial and regulatory muscle, would also help balance the growing influence of foreign owners in the English game.
Next year, Mr Wheatley will take charge of a new body, the Financial Conduct Authority, which will oversee how finance firms treat their customers.
He also worked as a policy advisor for London Mayor Boris Johnson, and is on the board of the CityUK, the promotional body for UK financial services.
More specifically, the body blows the financial downturn administered to the portfolios of major credit card companies in the form of high delinquency and default rates emphasized the importance of garnering a financially stable customer base.
But at the end of the day, what really defines Shariah-compliant financial activities from those that are not Shariah-compliant is that somebody - some authority, some Shariah scholar who sits on advisory board - tells the investing body - the financial house, whatever - that's compliant.
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The bill still has to be passed by the House of Lords but ministers have already said a number of other measures - including plans for a new body to support financial regulation and for consumers to be able to join together to make it easier to sue financial firms - have been dropped.
Access to Scotland's hills should be an election issue because they offer "an escape from financial concerns", a mountaineering body has said.
The body helps consumers resolve financial complaints (see link on right).
The financial crisis really was a severe body blow to us, and a lot of the American people still think the Republicans are in control of the House and the Senate and the White House.
The government wants to hand the Council's powers to a new body overseen by the new Financial Conduct Authority.
The rules were issued by the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors, an industry body tasked with overseeing China's interbank bond market and backed by the central bank.
The elephant in every club boardroom is the need to factor in European governing body UEFA's new financial rules that are designed to prevent big spending clubs spending beyond their means and posting unsustainable yearly losses.
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Their rules can be overturned by another body of the government, the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
The energy industry needs to avoid "the same kind of body blow that just hit the financial industry, " billionaire Richard Branson warned Wednesday.
The Serious Fraud Office, the UK body which investigates and prosecutes complex financial fraud cases, issued a statement suggesting it was moving towards criminal prosecutions.
While working as a stockbroker in Oklahoma in 1999, he allegedly maintained accounts over which he had discretionary authority without providing written notification to the firm, according to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the successor regulatory body to the NASD.
The defection would also have financial implications for America's trade-union body.
That powerful new body, whose mandate is to preserve financial stability subject to not imperilling the government's growth and employment ambitions, could instruct the banks to increase their capital ratios.
The ministers are meeting 10 days after their heads of government agreed to use the bloc's temporary bailout funds to recapitalize Spain's ailing financial system and to set up a joint supervisory body for the area's lenders.
The ministers from the 17-nation bloc met 10 days after their heads of government agreed to use its temporary bailout funds to recapitalize Spain's ailing financial system and to set up a joint supervisory body for the area's lenders.
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body set up by the first President Bush, refined its 40 recommendations on how to combat money laundering, which in turn triggered the rewriting of bank laws across the globe.
When that body mentioned corruption as a problem in the Russian financial system, Moscow raised no objection (and is said to have toughened its rules since joining).
So following a meeting of the House Committee of the House of Lords, and at their request, I have today written to the senior salaries review body to ask them to review the system of financial support in the House of Lords to increase accountability, transparency and reduce cost.
By racking up too much debt, the club had run afoul of the financial regulations set out by UEFA, European soccer's governing body.
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