Industry colleagues, friends and family are mourning the death of consumer champion Caroline Rookes, chair of The Pensions Ombudsman.

One of the key figures in the early days of financial intermediary regulation, Lord Elton, has died at the age of 93.

Fintech entrepreneur Nick Hungerford, the co-founder of robo-adviser Nutmeg, has died at the age of 43 after suffering from a terminal cancer.

Ian Taylor, one of the founders of platform Transact, died on 17 October at home after a short illness and two years after retiring. The company has written an obituary for their much-loved founder which Financial Planning Today is reproducing here by kind permission of the company.