Financial services firms have escaped a total of £1.2 billion in FCA fines in the last four years, a report has found.

Financial Planning professionals have bemoaned platforms’ poor service levels and called for the operators to make improvements.

The Deputy Chief Executive of Which? has been appointed to a key role with The Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Transact will cut its charges from tomorrow.

The core of the new Cofunds platform has been built, it was revealed this morning.

The FCA has fined a former investment banker for sharing confidential information over WhatsApp.

A PFS board member has relaunched her outsourced Paraplanning firm’s graduate training programme.

A new report has suggested that the average life expectancy of men and women at the age of 65 has fallen in the past three years.

A trade body has urged the FCA to tighten regulation around unregulated products to reduce compensation claims, as advisers brand the current FSCS system ‘unfair’.

Tilney has snapped up another Financial Planner as its hiring spree continues.