The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is “agnostic” on whether consolidation is a “good or bad thing” for the financial advice market.

Brendan Llewellyn delves into a Davies Marsh report on the working lives of BDMs, a role that he describes as the lynchpin ...

Consumer Duty has not gone far enough and financial advisers need to be “more aggressive” in their innovation in light of the regulatory shake-up, according to PFS Paraplanning Panel member Zara Okoro ...

Some 80% of advice businesses saw turnover increase last year and more than two-thirds predict higher profits in 2025, ...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has cut interest rates by a quarter point, from 4.75% to 4.5%.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that it will not be upholding complaints about the way it handled the Blackmore Bonds case in 2017.

Third Financial, part of the Nucleus group, has launched a portal targeted at large advice firms and consolidators who want to launch an adviser as a platform service.

St James’s Place (SJP) has partnered with Dynamic Planner to make its risk profiling tool available for its advisers and ...

Quilter’s advice network Quilter Financial Planning has added four appointed representative (AR) firms to its advice network.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has built an updated firm checker, allowing consumers to check whether a financial ...

The Lords’ Financial Services Regulation Committee (FSRC) has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) not to proceed ...