Regulation

Adviser firm consolidator Attivo Group has acquired Reading-based IFA Sanderson Financial Consulting for an undisclosed sum - the first of what it hopes will be 12 purchases in 2015.

David Ferguson on Standard Life's move into advice

An IFA and the directors of banking giants Goldman Sachs and Lloyds will head up the panels that raise the industry's voice on policy making to the ear of the regulator.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has appointed eight law firms to form a new in-house panel, which it expects to manage the majority of its legal advice and representation.

The unavoidable challenges facing simplified advice

Almost a fifth of all firms granted interim consumer credit permissions are IFAs, according to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) figures.

An IFA is to launch a non-advised investment proposition alongside its fully advised service to allow clients to "dip in and out of advice as they please".

Problems with the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) online regulatory reporting system GABRIEL have now persisted for a week, leaving firms struggling to input their data.

Money Advice Service (MAS) partnerships with financial services organisations are "coming to fruition" as "more people than ever" have turned to the service for help with their finances, chief executive Caroline Rookes has said.

Why pensions freedom will spark an advice market renaissance