A financial think tank believes there is now a prospect of an early Bank of England base rate rise after the Bank’s Monetary Policy committee voted 5-3 today to keep the bank rate unchanged at 0.25 per cent.

Guy Opperman MP has been appointed as the new Parliamentary Under Secretary for Pensions and Financial Inclusion.

Advisers aiming to grow their firms through acquisition of other firms could be losing out on value by failing to take account of basic checks and balances, Roderic Rennison of Rennison Consulting has warned.

The Financial Conduct Authority has unveiled the list of 31 firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the second phase of the regulatory sandbox project designed to let firms test out innovative new financial ideas and products.

Wrap firm Nucleus has recruited the editor of IFA trade title Money Marketing, Natalie Holt, to be its new content editor.

Accountancy and Financial Planning firm Mazars has appointed Ros Price to the investment committee of its Financial Planning business.

Standard Life has reported that its discretionary Investment Hub has broken through the £4bn milestone as it celebrates its third anniversary.

The FCA's 2016 Assessing Suitability Review - a major review of the quality of financial advice in the UK - will be repeated in 2019 and Paraplanners and Financial Planners should begin preparing for it now, an FCA expert has told the CISI / IFP annual Paraplanner Conference today.

More than 130 Paraplanner delegates are in Hinckley, Leics, today for the annual CISI Paraplanner Conference 2017, which is getting under way this morning.

The 2017 CISI / IFP Paraplanning Conference has been hailed "a huge success" by conference co-chair Dan Atkinson.