Financial Planning software and data provider Defaqto will bolt on a comprehensive cashflow modelling tool to its Engage Financial Planning system from next year.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has reported that 10 regulated firms defaulted in October and November.

Guernsey-based trust and pension company the UAP Group (UAP) has acquired SIPP provider Alltrust Services and has backed Alltrust's acquisition today of failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions.

The FCA has provisionally banned three bond traders for market manipulation.

SSAS firm WestBridge Group is to acquire the employees, clients and assets of Rowanmoor Executive Pensions Limited’s (REPL) book of 3,500 small self-administered schemes (SSAS), for an undisclosed sum. 

Fast-growing Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone has acquired Hereford-based Complete Financial Planning.

SIPP and SSAS provider Alltrust has acquired failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions Limited (RPPL) which went into administration in the summer after a flood of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Former St James’s Place adviser Jason Maddison has joined national IFA Continuum as a financial adviser based in Spennymoor, County Durham.

Leading Chartered and Certified Financial Planner Warren Shute is to launch a new coaching programme “for planners, by planners.”

Midlands-based Smith Cooper Independent Financial Solutions has rebranded as Everlong Wealth after being awarded Chartered Financial Planner status.