Ex-Everton and Glasgow Rangers manager Walter Smith has launched legal proceedings against his former financial advisers.

The ABI has appointed the first woman to chair the organisation in its 100 year history.

New research from wealth management and Financial Planning group Tilney has revealed that most people remain in the dark about what to do with their pensions on retirement but most still want the ‘certainty’ of an annuity-style income.

A new firm, Pension Advice Specialists (PAS), which offers advice on pension transfers has warned of a gap in the availability of guidance.

The FCA has fined Canara Bank £896,100 and has imposed a restriction, preventing it from accepting deposits from new customers for 147 days.

Longevity and a decade of historically low interest rates have created “a dangerous cocktail” for the over-50s generation, according to new joint research by the London Institute of Banking & Finance and Seven Investment Management.

A dispute over whether cashflow modelling is to become “effectively mandatory” for DB transfers has broken out between a software firm and the FCA.

Intelliflo, the technology platform used by thousands of Financial Planners and financial advisers, has been sold by owner HgCapital to investment firm Invesco for an undisclosed sum.

The CISI has awarded an Honorary Fellowship to a Quilter Cheviot executive.

The Financial Conduct Authority has today published its draft rules outlining how it plans to regulate claims management companies (CMCs) when it takes over their regulation from 1 April 2019.