Standard Life Aberdeen may be ready to sell off its 175-year-old Standard Life brand to acquisitive life insurance group Phoenix Group.

Private equity-owned platform James Hay is to buy rival Nucleus Financial for £145m in an all-cash deal announced today.

Long-standing equity release provider Hodge is to exit the equity release and annuity markets by selling Hodge Life Assurance Company to a US firm.

Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has bought London-based Financial Planner Montagu Limited in a deal worth up to £2.34m. 

Financial adviser Frenkel Topping has acquired two specialist clinical injury law firms for a total of £9m only a few months after revealing it was shifting its strategy away from acquiring adviser firms.

The London Stock Exchange Group has completed its £20bn acquisition of global data provider Refinitiv in an all-share deal.

North Wales-based Celtic Financial Planning has acquired the financial advisory arm of Widnes-based Halton Insurance Services.

Vintage Wealth Management is to acquire Surrey-based Corfe Wealth Management for an undisclosed sum.

National Financial Planner and wealth manager Perspective has revealed plans to acquire more than 10 adviser firms over the next few months after announcing its 39th acquisition today.

US private equity firm Flexpoint Ford LLC has agreed a £224.5m cash takeover of Financial Planning group AFH.