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St James's Place has selected IFDS to administrate its protection, investments, pensions and collectives business.

Crewe-based Jones Sheridan Financial Consulting has purchased Congleton-based Wealth and Trustee Management, the latest in a string of recent acquisitions.

Five colleagues of the hedge fund fraudster Bernard Madoff are awaiting trial on Tuesday, following a five-year probe into one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history.

The number of Personal Finance Society (PFS) members who have qualified for associate, fellowship or chartered status has more than doubled over the last year, reaching 1,570 graduates in the 18 months to June this year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has welcomed the parliamentary commission on banking standards' (PCBS) recommendations for reforming the banking sector.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has paid out more than £4.5bn compensating almost 230,000 customers of collapsed Icelandic bank Icesave, it has revealed.

The government's popular Help to Buy mortgage scheme could threaten financial stability if it is mismanaged, a group of MPs has warned.

Cofunds has dropped its annual £40 fixed platform charge for all its clients on its explicit pricing model.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Greg Clark has been replaced by Sajid Javid in the government reshuffle.

Brewin Dolphin group head of research Matthew Butcher has left the group after nine years, IFAonline's sister title, Investment Week, understands.