Cashflow modelling tool provider Truth is adding extra functionality from today allowing Financial Planners to white label their own free cashflow onboarding site for consumers.

The Government has released a consultation into measures that will see probate fees increase from £155 for probate professionals and £215 for individuals to a flat rate of £273 for all applicants.

In this exclusive Q&A Sian Fisher, CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute, answers some key questions from Financial Planning Today Editor Kevin O'Donnell on the future of the organisation, its Personal Finance Society arm, and plans to consult with members on the direction of the 125,000 member professional body.

The Chartered Insurance Institute board has shelved, at least temporarily, any plans to deregister its Chartered Financial Planner-body, the Personal Finance Society, until the results of a major review are known next year.

Figures published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that average weekly earnings grew by 6.6% year on year in the three months to May 2021, putting the pensions triple lock under further pressure.

Financial Planning firm Informed Choice is to close its office for the day on Monday 19 July in order to celebrate Freedom Day.

Wealth manager WH Ireland has returned its first profit in five years in its final results for the year ended 31 March.

Tilney, part of wealth management and Financial Planning group Tilney Smith & Williamson, had established a new investment management team at its Newcastle office.

The speech on transforming to a forward-looking, proactive regulator, delivered by Financial Conduct Authority chief executive Nikhil Rathi at the launch of the FCA’s 2021-22 Business Plan this morning:

Over the next 18 months Financial Planners can expect to see a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that looks and feels different, according to the regulator’s chief executive Nikhil Rathi.