Total staff bonus payments in the UK in the 2015/2016 financial year reached £44.3 billion, a record in cash terms, and 4.4% higher than the previous year.

Prestwood, a company which provides cashflow modeling software to Financial Planners and Paraplanners, is to launch a new “next generation” version of its Truth software in October at the CISI-IFP Financial Planning conference.

The Personal Finance Society, which has 36,000 individual members, has today named NFU Mutual’s Nick Turner as its new President for 2016/17.

Andrew Tinney, former chief operating officer of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management, has appealed against a ban by the FCA from carrying out any senior management role in any regulated financial services provider.

About 80 Paraplanners are set to attend the fourth national Paraplanners Powwow tomorrow but there is doubt over event’s long term future.

The founder of the national Paraplanner Powwows, Richard Allum, has revealed that two financial services organisations have expressed an interest in taking on the running of the national Paraplanner Powwow since his warning its future was in doubt.

Financial Planners and Paraplanners have been urged to watch a live demonstration on Twitter today showing how a new pensions dashboard might work.

The second inflation figures for the period after the EU referendum have this morning shown the rate was unchanged from July.

Plastic cash is going into circulation for the first time ever in the UK today.

The chief executive of James Hay’s parent company IFG Group is leaving his job with immediate effect.