Portfolio analysis firm StatPro Group has acquired ESG research and index business unit from ECPI Group in a £2.6m deal.

Fintech and regtech firm Money Alive has revealed Tilney is the latest firm to adopt its Adviser Portal product to use as part of their Defined Benefit (DB) pension review process.

IFA network New Leaf has given all its 110 member firms free access to UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform.

Wealth planner Brown Shipley has revealed its new chair of the board of directors.

XPS Pensions Group has uncovered a surge in the number of ‘red flags’ being reported on pension transfers, indicating warning signs of scam activity, from 13% in June 2018 to 34% in June 2019.

Wealth manager Charles Stanley has expanded its distribution team with a new hire from Scottish Widows.

John Govett has resigned as chief executive of the new Money and Pensions Service, the government-backed single financial guidance agency, two months after it was officially launched.

Tenet has secured a preferential deal with Dynamic Planner for all appointed representatives and clients of its TenetSelect arm.

The chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown has apologised to clients hit by the suspension of the Woodford Equity Income Fund.

The cost of reversing the increase in state pension ages could top £200bn, SIPP and platform provider AJ Bell has warned as the result of a High Court case is awaited.