Editor's view: Ab(e)rd(ee)n's vowel-iant return and Farage's Pancake Day promise

To the delight of financial planners and journalists across the UK, we saw Abrdn vowel-iantly reclaim its lost ‘e's to become Aberdeen. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage celebrated Pancake Day by popping up at a farmers' protest in London and pledging to scrap inheritance tax (IHT) should his party get into power. We aren't as yet aware of how he'd plan to plug that £8.3bn IHT revenue gap. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) imposed restrictions on SEI's UK platform business. The firm must seek permission to onboard new institutional clients where agreements would be "significant or mat...