FNZ, the fintech firm behind several UK platforms, has completed the takeover of Australian rival GBST Holdings, a provider of technology to capital markets and the wealth management sector.

Professor Deen Sanders, one of Australia's leading financial services experts, told this year CISI's Financial Planning Conference that planners had an "extraordinary" relationship with clients which often beat that of lawyers.

The FCA and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have agreed to strengthen cooperation post-Brexit.

Fidelity has promoted insider Jackie Boylan to be head of its platform business FundsNetwork.