Troubled wealth manager and Financial Planner WH Ireland has moved a step closer to winding up after reporting a pre-tax loss of £1.9m in its latest full year results, following a loss of £2.5m the previous year.

AJ Bell has added a new set of planning tools to its Investcentre platform.

The FCA is set to open the door to widespread adviser charging for targeted support, the new type of guidance it hopes will reach millions more people.

Just Group has developed a structured pension investment delivering guaranteed income and/or growth for a selected term within a client’s platform-based personal pension portfolio.

The Close Brothers Group has reported an operating loss of £122.4m for the year ended 31 July 2025, in comparison to a £132.7m profit the previous year.

A new report, based on FCA Register data, has revealed that 7,860 firms deauthorised from the FCA Register in the last eight months. 

The CISI Future Foundation, the charity arm of the professional body, is to award 14 UK charities with grants totalling £952,600, to provide financial literacy programmes mainly for disadvantaged young people.

Fintech and software provider Fintel is to launch a new distribution platform called Omnicore which will provide a direct link between advisers and providers. 

The FCA has begun High Court proceedings against a number of individuals and companies over an alleged unauthorised investment which saw £23m of consumers' money invested in static homes.

There was worrying news this week that pension drawdown users are taking out far too much cash from their pensions.