DD|hub, a new free-to-use service to help financial advisers with DFM due diligence, has launched today.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has revealed that it has so far paid out £22m to the 16,000-plus victims of the Beaufort DFM collapse.

Schroders has appointed Gillian Hepburn who joins the UK Intermediary business as intermediary solutions director.

DFM Marlborough Group has acquired a stake in National IFA Continuum.