The FCA has provisionally banned three bond traders for market manipulation.

SSAS firm WestBridge Group is to acquire the employees, clients and assets of Rowanmoor Executive Pensions Limited’s (REPL) book of 3,500 small self-administered schemes (SSAS), for an undisclosed sum. 

Fast-growing Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone has acquired Hereford-based Complete Financial Planning.

SIPP and SSAS provider Alltrust has acquired failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions Limited (RPPL) which went into administration in the summer after a flood of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Former St James’s Place adviser Jason Maddison has joined national IFA Continuum as a financial adviser based in Spennymoor, County Durham.

Leading Chartered and Certified Financial Planner Warren Shute is to launch a new coaching programme “for planners, by planners.”

Midlands-based Smith Cooper Independent Financial Solutions has rebranded as Everlong Wealth after being awarded Chartered Financial Planner status.

The FCA is to impose additional checks on firms approving financial promotions.

Half (46%) of UK Financial Planners are worried about greenwashing, according to a new report.

Abrdn’s European High Yield Bond Fund and Strategic Bond Fund have been cloned by scammers, according to a warning issued by the FCA.