Wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood is to acquire Surrey-based Chartered Financial Planner firm Regency Investment Services for £3.45m.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has awarded Accredited Financial Planning Firm status to Oxford-based Expert Wealth Management.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has launched a campaign to encourage more savers to ask financial advisers and providers more questions about how their money is protected.

The financial damage caused by the Coronavirus pandemic is boosting demand for financial advice - with many consumers wanting face to face advice, according to research from adviser network Openwork.

Schroder’s Cazenove Capital business is to acquire London-based UHNW family office Sandaire in a drive to expand its wealth management business globally.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood Holdings has reported a hit to new business from the Coronavirus pandemic but says it is beginning to recover.

NS&I is to make sweeping cuts to most of its savings products from 24 November.

Independent Wealth Planners has acquired Southern-based Financial Planning firm Hunter Hammond Daniel Associates to establish its first presence in Sussex.

SIPP and cross-border financial services firm STM has expressed “disappointment” at the Court of Appeal’s decision to allow a challenge to the judgment in the long-running ‘Adams’ case.

Platform and SIPP firm James Hay has appointed former LV= group CEO Richard Rowney as its new chief executive to replace Alastair Conway.