The UK is becoming the leading country in the world for Paraplanning, as professionals from nations around the world seek to follow its example, a top expert has told Financial Planning Today.

The jobs outlook is the brightest it has been for three years in the finance sector, new figures suggest.

The minimum capital adequacy requirements for directly authorised personal investment firms will be doubled to £20,000 next summer.

A hostage negotiator and the founder of platform wrap Nucleus are on the top billing for a Financial Planning conference in Scotland starting today.

Gordon Brown has been handed a role as an adviser at an investment management company.

The Financial Ombudsman Service plans to keep case fees frozen for another year, it revealed this morning.

Rathbones has appointed ex-chief executive of Ashcourt Rowan as its new head of Financial Planning.

The FCA has time this morning published the lowest interest rates offered by 32 providers of easy access cash savings accounts and easy access cash ISAs for the first time.

Plans to build the “tallest building in the City of London” - where the Aviva Tower currently sits - were unveiled this morning.

A Financial Planning firm is setting up a new office in Scotland after snapping up three advisers – all from a rival firm in Edinburgh.