Training provider Compliance and Training Solutions (CATS) is to launch its first conference for Paraplanners.

Nearly 2,400 financial professionals attended this week's Personal Finance Society's two-day Festival of Financial Planning - the biggest event of its kind this year.

The new President of the Personal Finance Society Caroline Stuart has urged members to help build the profession by spreading the word about careers in Financial Planning and Paraplanning.

The new FCA Consumer Duty will be much tougher than the previous Treating Customers Fairly regulatory principles, the FCA's director of consumers investment Therese Chambers told Financial Planners in a keynote speech at the two-day Festival of Financial Planning which got under way today.