Fewer financial advisers are using Twitter than they were last year, a survey has suggested.

A leading FCA figure’s forecast that cash flow planning will soon become mainstream is “very encouraging”, the incoming IFP President says.

Nearly a third of firms have told the FCA they always refuse transfers from insistent clients.

Aberdeen has quickly followed up its acquisition of Parmenion by announcing it is to take 100% ownership of a specialist investment manager.

Finance firms should all be given a simple star rating such as that used by ebay or the Food Standards Agency, a consumer watchdog says.

The FCA and FOS are both run by human beings and therefore there will always be differences in dealing with something as subjective as suitability, a top regulatory official says.

An FCA expert on a quest to quell regulation ‘myths’ has urged Financial Planners and Paraplanners to raise concerns and questions directly to the regulator.

Hargreaves Landsown has revealed it is being stung by a 450% rise in its bill to help pay for the FSCS, as it announced a 5% drop in profits.

Scores of Paraplanners will head to Northamptonshire later today as the third national Paraplanners Powwow gets set to take place.

A petition calling for an independent review of the regulation of financial advisory firms and the FSCS is closing in on 500 signatures.