There is less than a week to go for Financial Planners and Paraplanners to stake their claim for a new award. Read more ...

Hargreaves Lansdown is recruiting 40 new developers, project managers and testers at its head office in Bristol as part of expansion plans for its HL Vantage investment supermarket. Read more ...

Old Mutual Wealth is to launch a new flexi-access drawdown facility via its Collective Retirement Account (CRA) in time for the new pension freedoms that come into force on 6 April. Read more ...

The chief executive of the National Employment Savings Trust is heading for the exit door with his sights set on a personal project to develop "a global digital money product". Read more ...

London could be the biggest beneficiary when new rules enabling spouses to inherit their partner's ISA allowance are introduced in April, statistics suggest. Read more ...

A pensions company boss has fired a broadside at the Government over the retirement reforms, saying they risk being "an infamous example of political bungling". Read more ...

Analysis by a pensions firm about auto-enrolment has suggested a big increase in the number of people who have stopped paying into their workplace schemes after the opt-out window since the scheme launched.

A Financial Planning firm is set to offer a new telephone advice service as the pension reforms come into effect. Read more ...

A new Pensions Ombudsman is set to take the reins after his appointment was rubber stamped. Read more ...

The growing political row over tax avoidance is "unhelpful and disingenuous" and detracts from the more important conversation of combating evasion, a financial advisory firm's chief says. Read more ...