A Financial Conduct Authority conduct risk specialist has left the regulator for a consultancy firm which helps advisers with compliance.

Changes to Standard Life’s platform have been unveiled this morning aimed at making the adviser’s job “that bit more straightforward”.

The FCA has fined Sonali Bank’s UK arm £3,250,600 today and banned its former money laundering reporting officer.

The debate about introducing a new professional Paraplanning standard has recently intensified.

A new discretionary investment management firm has been launched today.

The proportion of old IFP members that kept their membership going after the CISI merger dropped to about 50% back in May but has risen again to 82%.

A Financial Planning firm specialising in advice for medics and dentists has taken on three new Paraplanner apprentices.

A finance firm has urged the financial services sector to introduce compulsory flexible working hours to attract and retain more women.

Professional advisers are increasingly being overlooked by the over 50s as they turn to the internet instead, a new report suggests.

Paraplanners are predicting more takeover deals in the platforms sector, following the recent sale of Cofunds by L&G to Aegon for £140m.