Northumberland accountancy firm Greaves West & Ayre (GWA) has added three IFAs to its wealth management team.

Former Scottish Widows senior executive Emma Watkins will become UK CEO at Canada Life from 1 September.

European life and pensions consolidator Chesnara has acquired HSBC Life (UK) in a deal worth £260m.

Expanding Financial Planner Shackleton has acquired South West-based Financial Planning and wealth management group Chetwood, adding £900m in AUM to its assets.

Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman soared by over 50% during the past year to top 305,000 - driven in large part by claims from professional representatives, including claims management companies.

The influential Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has been relaunched as Pensions UK and is planning what it calls, “an ambitious new strategy for the next decade and beyond.”

The FCA has launched a consultation on plans to make serious bullying and harassment in financial firms a misconduct offence.

Adviser network ValidPath has today launched what's been called an 'e-Harmony-style' match-making Client Buyout Programme (CBO) to connect buyers of IFA firms in its network with advisers nationally looking to exit the profession and retire.

Bristol Financial Planning firm Frazer James has scrapped its advice initial fee, “to remove the barriers that stop people from getting great financial advice.”

FCA fines are on course to hit their lowest annual total since the regulator was created in 2013, according to new analysis.