The Chancellor has inadvertently gifted Financial Planners an almost unending stream of frazzled new clients by freezing the tax thresholds, if the latest HMRC data and some fresh predictions on the number of higher rate taxpayers are anything to go by.

There is no doubt that the Treasury-backed Women in Finance Charter campaign has been a powerful engine of change when it comes to giving women better representation in senior management roles in financial services.

A record 400 firms have signed up to the Treasury-backed Women in Finance Charter but 14 firms have left the scheme as progress slows.

Financial Planners have said they would not accept payment for fees in digital and crypto currencies, despite UK Treasury regulation plans.