Stephen Lansdown, one of the two founders of online investment platform and wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown, has sold £103m of shares in the business.

Insurer RSA has recommended acceptance of a £7.2bn cash bid for the company from Canadian insurer Intact and Danish insurer Tryg.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood has completed the acquisition of Surrey Chartered Financial Planner firm Regency Investment Services.

Financial Planning-led wealth management firm AFH Financial has reported that its client inflows continue to be impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Financial adviser network and wealth manager Tavistock Investments is closing a number of offices and axing staff in a £750,000 cost-cutting drive as it prepares to launch its own platform.

STM Group, the financial services and SIPP provider, has added £5m to its takeover war chest to fund further acquisitions.

The Competition and Markets Authority has ordered platform engine provider FNZ to sell rival and takeover target GBST over fears that millions of UK pension savers and investors could face worse service and higher prices.

Up and coming adviser platform Wealthtime says it will consider its own acquisitions following the completion of its takeover by European private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has received the go ahead from the FCA to complete its acquisition of rival Talbot and Muir.

Standard Life Aberdeen’s Financial Planning business 1825 has shed a "small number" of staff in a senior exec shake up.