FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi has pledged to “revolutionise financial advice” as part of a package of reforms to break down the barriers to business growth in financial services.

The latest issue of Financial Planning Today magazine is now available and is packed with tips and insights for Financial Planners, Paraplanners, Wealth Managers and IFAs.

Mutual investment and insurance provider Royal London has selected experienced financial services executive Isabel Hudson to be its next chair and a non-executive director.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has urged Britain’s regulators to “tear down” barriers to promote business growth.

The FCA is set to boost staff numbers this year at its expanding Leeds office from 300 to 400 with the recruitment of 100 new employees.

Three in five people (60%) are positive about their finances for 2025 in comparison to only half who felt this way going into 2024, according to new research.

Rapidly expanding Swedish-owned wealth manager and Financial Planner Söderberg & Partners has invested in three Financial Planning firms as it continues its strategy of taking stakes in UK advisers.

Changes to the treatment of pensions under new inheritance tax rules - due to take effect from 2027 - will exacerbate delays in probate cases, wealth manager and Financial Planner Quilter has warned.

Wealth manager Brown Shipley has appointed Kate Richardson as a client adviser in London to strengthen its business across the south of the UK.

Assets under management held steady for investment manager Premier Miton at £10.7bn in the fourth quarter of 2024, despite £33m in net outflows.