Platform and SIPP provider AJ Bell has reported a jump in advised customers over the past year of 8% to reach 174,000, according to a quarterly trading update issued today.

Investment, protection and retirement specialist LV= has launched a new platform service for advisers in partnership with Embark.

In late December, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tasked 10 regulators with removing ‘barriers to growth’ in order to attach the jump leads to the UK economy. On 16 January, the FCA wrote a letter to the Government to outline their plans to support the growth agenda.

The government will today confirm government plans to lift restrictions on defined benefit (DB) scheme surpluses.

The Money and Pension Service (MaPS) has published the details and dates by when pension providers need to register their connection with the pensions dashboard ecosystem.