Wealth manager and platform firm AJ Bell is to relaunch its recently acquired mobile phone fintech Adalpha as an app-based platform called ‘Touch by AJ Bell'.

The new issue of Financial Planning Today Magazine is out and features an exclusive report on how the SIPP sector is coping with a regulatory earthquake. 

Bill Vasilieff, CEO of £9bn platform Novia, will exit in June following the takeover of the business by private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners.

The platform sector has recovered strongly this year with inflows reaching the highest levels since the DB transfer and Pension Freedoms booms of 2018, according to the platform consultancy lang cat.