A Financial Planner in Scotland and a trainee Financial Planner in West Yorkshire have become the first two to achieve the UK’s new highest level Financial Planning qualification.

Certified Financial Planner professionals in the UK are to offer consumers pro bono guidance on coping financially with the Coronavirus outbreak via a series of money guides.

The CISI, the professional body which runs the Certified Financial Planner qualification, says it will consider compensating victims of the cyber attack its website suffered recently.

The attack on the CISI website - which targeted credit card transactions - came from a "highly organised international attacker", Financial Planning Today understands.