The Government has delayed the IR35 tax changes for the self employed until April 2021 but remains committed to introducing them.

The Treasury says that a further 26 companies have signed up to the Women in Finance Charter, including Old Mutual Wealth, Allianz, the Bank of England, Deloitte and Tesco Bank - increasing the number of employees covered by the Charter to over 600,000.

The PLSA has welcomed news that the Government is set to publish draft legislation to ban pension cold calling - including texts and emails - in early 2018.

FinTech firms will get powers to access data from all of a consumer’s bank accounts.