The FCA plans to publish performance metrics for itself and the sector for the first time as it raises its annual funding requirement by 4.3%, according to the regulator’s new three year business plan.

Online D2C platform interactive investor has launched what it calls an ‘ultra low cost’ SIPP with a flat fee of £12.99 a month.

Bestinvest, the D2C arm of Tilney Smith & Williamson, is to axe most ad hoc SIPP fees from 1 March as part of a wider shake-up of fees and services.

The FCA is planning to increase its minimum fee for firms from £1,151 to £2,200, it announced today.

The Department for Work and Pensions is to introduce a threshold below which pension providers will be unable to charge a flat fee to savers.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks is to raise SIPP fees substantially in a major overhaul of its charges and the interest it pays on SIPP cash accounts.

Investment platform Interactive Investor has scrapped or paused a number of SIPP fees for clients of its new acquistion The Share Centre.

Sipp provider Xafinity has announced it has frozen its fees for the coming year after advisers told the firm some companies were 'abusing' their ability to make increases.