Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone has signed up the eighth firm this year to its buy-out programme – West Midlands-based Complete Financial Planning.

More than 120 financial businesses have applied for Associate Firm membership of the Personal Finance Society in the first month.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment has named Pippa Oldfield, assistant manager, at Mazars UK as its Paraplanner Of The Year.

The FCA has advised firms to return to working from home where possible.

Criminals are exploiting the Coronavirus pandemic by fuelling a big rise in online fraud, according to the latest figures from UK Finance.

Over half (54%) of UK adults consider income protection unimportant, according to new research.

FCA chairman Charles Randell has lambasted scam investment advertising on Google and social media.

The chair of the FCA has promised to act upon the independent review of how the regulator handled the collapse of London Capital and Finance.

Financial Planning firms provide attractive opportunities for investment, according to investment bank Liberum.

Damien Rylett, CEO of Brunel Capital Partners, has been appointed as the new chair of the Personal Finance Society’s practitioner panel.