Five things clients will call you about this week

Platform woes Platforms could be on your clients' minds this week, after platform provider Transact's £3.5m fine for not keeping clients' cash safe for nine years ended up in The Independent. While investors did not lose any money as a result, the fine will be a blow to the thousands of advisers who use platforms to help manage their clients' cash, and could lead to a flood of worried calls. Blocked bonds Halifax Sharedealing, the cut-price stockbroker, is preventing its one million customers from subscribing to popular bonds, including the current 7% offer from finance firm Interm...