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.

Defined benefit pension transfer values fell to their lowest value for six years at the end of December after a significant decline in the final quarter, according to pension provider and consultant XPS’ index.

Canada Life has appointed Peter Maddern as managing director of retirement, to succeed Tom Evans, who is leaving the business to pursue a new opportunity.

The FCA is to retire its British Steel Pension Scheme redress calculator which has been used to provide an assessment of client losses incurred due to poor advice.