Adviser support company SimplyBiz is to buy technology and data provider Defaqto in a deal worth a total of £74.3m.

UBS AG (UBS) has been fined £27,599,400 by the FCA for failings relating to transaction reporting.

Standard Life Aberdeen has seemingly emerged victorious in a dispute with Lloyds Banking Group over an investment mandate.

Quilter Cheviot has appointed six new investment managers, increasing its investment management team to 162 across the firm’s 12 offices.

Financial Planning and investment management group Tilney has made a new senior appointment to its Business Development team.

Leading Financial Planning business entrepreneur and author Chris Budd talks about how he has made his staff the boss in the latest issue of Financial Planning Today magazine which is now published.

The latest issue of Financial Planning Today magazine has now been published and features the results of our latest annual Financial Planning survey.

The FCA has revealed more than 600 so-called ‘ambulance chaser’, or claims management companies (CMCs), have registered with the authority.

The Serious Fraud Office, working in conjunction with the Financial Conduct Authority, has opened an investigation into individuals associated with failed £236m mini-bond firm London Capital & Finance Plc.  

Advice network Openwork has attracted a record turnout for a nationwide series of roadshows.