Tom Hegarty: “If 2025 was a year of groundwork, 2026 will be a year of implementation with developments moving out of theory and into practice.”

OPINION REGULATION TECHNOLOGY

02 JAN, 2026

As 2026 gets underway, our CEO, Tom Hegarty, caught up with FT Adviser’s Sonia Rach to talk about the biggest changes to the advice sector in 2025, and his predictions for the next twelve months. With a focus on regulatory change, consolidation, and the direction of travel for technological innovation, Tom discusses how shifts over the past year will ultimately enable better outcomes, for more people, in more ways than before.

Read the article in full, here https://www.ftadviser.com/content/298365ee-36b6-40fd-a300-1d75cc3b7c05

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