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.

Experienced Paraplanner Kim Bendall has launched an outsourced Paraplanning firm called Go Paraplanning.

Fidelity has acquired Legal & General Investment Management’s UK Personal Investing business which manages £5.8bn in assets for 300,000 clients.

Financial services company Mazars, which has a substantial UK Financial Planning arm, has launched a global rebrand.

Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods says its market is beginning to stabilise and it is planning further acquisitions.

The Financial Planning community can expect to see more acquisitions soon from Independent Wealth Planners, chief executive David Inglesfield has told Financial Planning Today magazine's latest issue.

Financial Planning firm MAC Financial has acquired the business of Island Financial Solutions (IFS).

Chartered Financial Planner firm Fiducia Wealth Management has been bought out by its management.

Expanding Chartered Financial Planner firm Lucas Fettes Financial Planning has acquired a fellow Chartered Financial Planner firm, Andrew Dickson of Suffolk.