Shares in SIPP provider STM Group were suspended from the AIM market today at 7.30 am as the group - whose chief executive was arrested in October - announced an acquisition.

Rapidly expanding Financial Planning business AFH has acquired Colchester-based Financial Planner Britton Financial for £2m, adding £57m of funds under management.

Six members of a crime group have been jailed for a total of 45 years for a £107.9 million, eco-investment tax scam believed to be one of the UK’s biggest tax crimes.

Chartered Financial Planners Beacon Wealth Management has this week teamed up for the 7th year with BBC Children In Need’s Pudsey Bear.

Paraplanners Kelly Guttridge and Jo Radcliffe will be hosting 'The Powwow in the Middle' event, the next in the Powwow series, which will be held in Oxfordshire.

The Treasury says that a further 26 companies have signed up to the Women in Finance Charter, including Old Mutual Wealth, Allianz, the Bank of England, Deloitte and Tesco Bank - increasing the number of employees covered by the Charter to over 600,000.

The PLSA has welcomed news that the Government is set to publish draft legislation to ban pension cold calling - including texts and emails - in early 2018.

The Financial Conduct Authority has today publicly censured Capita Financial Managers Limited (CFM) and ordered the firm to pay up to £66m to investors in one of its income funds.

NS&I has today said it is increasing interest rates across its variable rate product range, including Premium Bonds, from 1 December.

PFS chief executive Keith Richards has described the first ever PFS Festival of Financial Planning a "fantastic" success with news that total attendance for the two day event reached nearly 3,300.