Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) is set to buy Grant Thornton’s Financial Planning and wealth management arm, according to reports.

Defaqto has moved to reassure staff that there will be no job losses as a result of its takeover by SimplyBiz.

A new international investment data firm has been created after FE joined forces with fundinfo, a provider of services for asset managers and distributors in Europe and Asia, and F2C, the Luxembourg-based business which runs fund data management platform, publiFund.

Two firms of Chartered Financial Planners in East Anglia - Smith & Pinching and Almary Green - are to merge, creating a business with 125 staff.