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Wealth management group and consolidator Succession has acquired LRH Wealth Management for £3m and outlined plans to buy a further nine firms this year.

Brooks Macdonald said today it will complete a deal to buy risk-adjusted funds house Levitas Investment Management "imminently" after reporting another jump in discretionary assets under management.

A "relatively benign" rise in interest rates still has the potential to double the number of households facing debt problems, a think tank has said.

Eighteen websites have been suspended and arrests made during a campaign, being revamped on Thursday, against pensions liberation schemes.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has named Caroline Wayman as its chief ombudsman and CEO, succeeding Natalie Ceeney.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched an at-retirement service ahead of the deadline for implementing the new flexibilities for defined contribution (DC) members next April.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has used its suspension power for the first time to ban two subsidiaries of the Financial Group - network Financial Ltd and separate firm Investments Ltd - from recruiting new appointed representatives (ARs) and individual...

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun criminal proceedings against a foreign exchange (forex) trader who set up an unauthorised investment scheme.

Financial services firm True Potential (TP) has posted a further rise in profits in its half year results and has credited its "focus on providing technology" for its continued success.