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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed execution-only platforms will be caught up by its cash rebate ban and has blamed a "typographical error" for earlier confusion.

Prudential has poached Jackie Hunt from Standard Life as chief executive for its UK and European business.

The Financial Conduct Authority is to ban firms with platform and fund management arms effectively giving away platform services for free, in return for investment into its in-house funds.

The platform paper published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) this week is set to change the landscape of the platform industry in the UK, but what were the main points?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to allow platforms to receive payments from fund managers in relation to advertising products.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today paved the way for platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown and Standard Life to launch super clean share classes, after stating it would want to see existing deals re-created on clean fee share classes.

The FCA has moved to crack down on the potential for fund costs to rise as a result of the introduction of clean share classes.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to permit rebates from fund managers to platforms in cash, provided it is passed on to consumers in full in the form of additional units.

The Financial Conduct Authority is to allow nominal ‘de minimis' cash rebates of £1 or less, despite outlawing the payments in all but name.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to consult on reading across its rules on platforms to adjacent markets, such as the self-invested personal pension (SIPP) market.