STM Group, owner of the Options pensions business (formerly known as Carey), has sold its Jersey Corporate & Trustee Services (CTS) businesses for £1.4m.

Lloyds Banking Group is set to launch a £400m takeover of fast growing retirement and wealth management company Embark Group, according to a speculative report from Sky News over the weekend.

Nearly 92% of shareholders in platform Nucleus have accepted a cash offer from rival platform James Hay which values Nucleus at about £145m.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed today that the FCA will launch a regulatory ‘scale up box’ to build on its successful sandbox strategy which has helped dozens of start-up fintech firms get off the ground.

Mattioli Woods, the wealth manager and SIPP provider, is on the acquisition trail again this week with a £1.6m deal to buy Edinburgh wealth manager and Financial Planner Caledonia Asset Management.

The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that platform engine FNZ’s £150m purchase of rival GBST would raise “significant competition concerns” following a review of the deal.

London-based Waverton Investment Management Group has expanded its Financial Planning interests with the acquisition today of Scottish wealth manager and Financial Planner Cornerstone Asset Management.

International wealth manager deVere Group has set up a “strategic partnership” with UK Financial Planner Fidelius Group to serve expats returning to the UK.

M&G Wealth has appointed Tim Clark from Financial Planning and IFA network Loyal North to be its first recruitment and acquisition director.

Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has acquired Leicester Financial Planning firm Pole Arnold Financial Management Limited in a deal worth up to £7m.