The owner of a Bucks IFA firms says the increasing regulatory burden is one of the key reasons behind the £1.8m sale of his firm to Mattioli Woods.

Fund manager and wealth group M&G is to acquire the rapidly growing financial advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood Holdings has bought Admiral Wealth Management, a North Lincolnshire-based Chartered Financial Planning firm, for £4m. 

Data provider and fintech FE fundinfo has acquired FundConnect, a fund data and technology company based in Denmark, for an undisclosed sum.