A Chartered Accountant convicted of conspiring to insider deal has been jailed today for three and a half years.

About 400 financial advisers, Paraplanners and wealth managers are heading to London this morning to hear from a range of leading investment experts.

The Financial Conduct Authority has today opened its much publicised regulatory sandbox to firms to allow them to test new financial ideas in a ‘safe’ environment.

Redundancy, marriage and illness are among major life events that a savings body has suggested should escape incurring an exit fee for the Lifetime ISA.

Whistleblowing reports to the Pensions Regulator have risen 29% in a year, according to new analysis.

The incoming chief executive of the FCA says the public perception of some areas of finance is “too much towards the exploitative ‘greed is good’ end of the spectrum”.

The Government must bring in new pension legislation to plug regulatory gaps that put the savings of “many thousands of people at risk”, The Work and Pensions Select Committee says.

Auto-enrolment accounts for 28% of workplace pensions

Auto-enrolment accounted for 28% of employees being in a workplace pension scheme by March this year, new figures have shown.

A new Level 4 Financial Planning and Advice exam has been developed by the CISI, with the first tests set to be taken in August.

Nearly six in ten people aged 55 or over estimated their mortgage-free home is worth more than the combined value of their and their partner’s pension savings, a poll found.