All FCA-regulated firms should, by now, have put in place their implementation plans for meeting the Consumer Duty requirements by 31 July 2023 (a later date applies for legacy products). 

Christine Hallett founded retirement and SIPP provider Options UK (formerly Carey Pensions) in 2009 and is MD of the company, now part of STM Group. Here, the Options MD talks exclusively to Financial Planning Today about her business following the controversial Adams case, her views on the SIPP market and her plans for the future.

Pensions and SIPP provider @SIPP has hired Matt Storey from XPS as its new head of business development.

Harlequin chairman David Ames, the man behind a £226m SIPP-based fraud which hit 8,000 victims, was today jailed at Southwark Crown Court for 12 years.