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The government-backed Money and Pensions Service (MAPS) has today launched Pension Wise Digital, a digital version of its face to face service, to expand its free guidance offering to more people.

The FCA has provisionally banned two financial advisers for “acting without integrity” in relation to SIPPs pensions advice involving £10m of investments.

New research by the ABI has revealed that 76% of the people it included in an advice 'experiment' made decisions leading to a better financial outcome when guidance was ‘personalised’ to an individual’s circumstances.

The Financial Conduct Authority has put plans to create a simplified advice regime on hold.

The FCA is set to open the door to regulated 'simplified' financial advice to make advice cheaper and more accessible.

Nearly two out of three over-55s couples have never had retirement planning advice, according to a new survey.

Many advisers are failing to provide pension transfer advice of an "acceptable standard" says the FCA which is to scrutinise the harm to consumers from advisers who levy ‘excessive fees and charges.’

A total of 546 firms have admitted making errors in their MiFID II transaction reporting to the FCA since the new regime began two years ago, according to a study out today.