Bryan Parkinson, head of Financial Planning at Punter Southall Aspire, has been appointed managing director, head of wealth planning at Kingswood.

Hundreds of staff at The Pensions Regulator are taking part in a wave of strikes this month as pay talks remain deadlocked.

The FCA is now reviewing responses on its proposals published as part of the Advice Guidance Boundary Review set up by the regulator with the Treasury.

The number of workers who have newly enrolled into a pension scheme since the introduction of auto-enrolment (AE) has topped 11 million, according to new figures from The Pensions Regulator.

SSAS providers have hailed a victory as the Department of Work and Pensions has ditched a plan to potentially charge SSAS schemes a £10,000 general levy.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has been rapped by The Information Commissioner’s Office over continued failings to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

A new industry-led working group set up by the FCA to focus on boosting advisers' sustainable finance capability has included a Chartered and Certified Financial Planner among its founding members.

The number of advice firms planning to launch their own in-house platform has levelled-off, according to NextWealth’s latest report into the trend.

A third (34%) of advisers changed platforms in the last year following the Consumer Duty, mergers and technology updates, according to Defaqto’s newly-released annual Platform Service Review for 2024.

Companies House has introduced enhanced powers to improve the quality and reliability of its data and tackle the misuse of the companies register.