Industry collaboration fintech Origo’s newly-launched Unipass Transfer Tracking service has seen more than 10,000 pension transfers searched for by advisers since it went live on Monday 3 March.

Simple defined contribution pension transfers took an average of 10.5 days to complete last year, according to new data.

The FCA’s ban on contingent charging introduced in 2020 led to a dramatic fall in the number of DB transfers, but had little impact on fees, the regulator said.

The FCA is to retire its British Steel Pension Scheme redress calculator which has been used to provide an assessment of client losses incurred due to poor advice.

The FCA has provisionally banned and fined two financial advisers over failings involving £126m of allegedly "flawed advice" pension transfers.

Major issues continue to plague the DWP’s pension transfer regulations three years after they were implemented, new Freedom of Information data has revealed.

Pension transfer specialist adviser Philip Pryke has been fined £1.4m by the FCA after his firm advised on 986 transfers, many of them not in the client’s best interests.

Defined benefit pension transfer values fell to their lowest value in a year in October due to uncertainty around the Chancellor’s Budget, according to XPS’ index.

It’s no secret that the FCA has come in for flak over it’s naming and shaming enforcement plans and it’s no surprise it has decided to dilute them as a result. But should it be backing off?

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Steven Hodgson and Paul Adams of Stockton-on-Tees-based Vintage Investment Services from advising customers on pension transfers and opt-outs.

Pension transfer times have fallen to the lowest level seen since the end of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2021, according to new data.

The FCA has banned four financial advisers, three provisionally, over “reckless” pension transfer advice which has so far cost £13.4m in compensation payments.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has declared BSPS-linked adviser firm Mark Peter Houlbrook (FRN: 498168) in default over pension transfer advice, opening the door to compensation for ex-clients with valid claims.

The number of defined benefit pension transfers in July surged to the highest level since August 2023.