Royal London has acquired fintech firm Wealth Wizards from Liverpool Victoria for an undisclosed sum.

Investment platform AJ Bell Investcentre has launched a responsible managed portfolio service range for financial advisers.

Private equity firm Flexpoint Ford has increased its acquisition bid for Financial Planning group AFH Financial.

IFA consolidator Radiant Financial Group has appointed Alan Hopley as head of Financial Planning & Analysis.

Tavistock is to review its leadership team incentivisation at a general shareholders meeting as it looks to remove the use of share options in a bid to boost profits.

The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) has launched a new retirement planning qualification.

The FCA has scrapped performance-related pay and bonuses for senior FCA executives and is to cut average salaries for executive committee members this year following the £236m collapse of mini-bond provider London Capital & Finance.

Google has moved to clamp down on ‘unrealistic’ financial advertising following pressure from the FCA.

Financial Planning-focused adviser group AFH Financial has temporarily suspended trading in its ordinary shares on the AIM index pending an announcement from the business.

Adviser fintech Intelliflo has brought together five business under a new global Intelliflo brand.