The Financial Conduct Authority has published proposals today which would pave the way for a new generation of smaller corporate bond issues aimed at retail investors and wealth managers.

For the first time the FCA is to survey all regulated firms for its annual Practitioner Panel joint survey.

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.