The Personal Finance Society and the Financial Technology Research Centre are to jointly hold a new workshop for Financial Planners to highlight how the latest technology can help transform their businesses and boost service to clients.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has today unveiled a new website and adviser portal to support its newly launched digital SIPP launched under the Your Future SIPP brand.

Anti-fraud organisation Action Fraud has warned Instagram users to be wary of fraudulent investment posts as news emerges of more than 350 people being cheated out of a total of nearly £3.2m in the last five months.

The Financial Conduct Authority has urged people who invested in a number of unauthorised collective investment schemes (UCIS) involving ‘land banking’ to come forward to claim a possible refund from a £2.5m pot.

Financial Planning firm AKFP Group based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland has attained the prestigious BS 8577 and ISO 22222 certification for the third year in a row.

Adviser network Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed Richard Howells as managing director of Sesame Network to help drive growth in digital services.

Financial Planner Martin Adrian King, 56, of Beckenham, London, was given a suspended 18 month sentence this week after pleading guilty to hiding £235,000 in income from work he did with fraudster Antony Blakey through an offshore scheme.

Janus Henderson has today launched the Janus Henderson Absolute Return Fixed Income Fund to fill the gap between money market funds and conventional core fixed income.

FCA chief executive Andrew Bailey says the MiFID II changes are saving investors £180m a year and could save them up to £1bn over 5 years.

New standards for professional pension trustees have been published today by the Professional Trustee Standards Working Group.