Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to add an undergraduate degree in financial planning to its list of approved qualifications.

The City regulators will launch a new Financial Services Register to make it easier to find information on those they regulate - including scam firms for the first time.

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services has written to members informing them of a planned fee increase after suffering what it called "indiscriminate" increases to its regulatory costs.

Financial advisers who put ordinary investors' money into collapsed £60m property scheme Arck face an even greater struggle with complaints, after the Ombudsman upheld a ruling that the investment was likely to be suitable only for sophisticated clients....

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services is requiring advisers who want to give retirement advice post pensions freedom to attain a new retirement-specific top-up exam.

Advisory firm Saunderson House has credited a 25% upswing in the number of new clients with a strategic focus on building relationships with customers "earlier in their career".

Investment giant BlackRock has acquired US robo-advice business FutureAdvisor, through which it plans to reach out to the "mass affluent".

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Pension transfer requests out of defined benefit (DB) schemes doubled post pension freedoms, according to research from one provider.