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Jason Reading Green joins Focus
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Welcoming Jason Reading-Green to the team

Focus appoints Jason Reading-Green as Business Growth Lead to drive its expansion and bring its advice technology to more financial advice firms.

1 Sept 2026
Funkled and Focus Partner to Turn Financial Education into Advice-Ready Clients
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Funkled and Focus Partner to Turn Financial Education into Advice-Ready Clients

Funkled and Focus have partnered to embed Focus's digital client engagement tools directly into Funkled's free learning platform - giving advisers, employers and providers a new route to more engaged, advice-ready clients.

29 Jul 2026
Frankenstack
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What's really blocking UK advice firms

UK advice firms don't have five separate tech problems - they have one: the "Frankenstack," a patchwork of tools bolted on over time that's great at capturing and explaining client data but weak at actually deciding and acting. This piece breaks down why that gap causes so much adviser frustration, and lays out the two real ways to fix it.

21 Jul 2026
Plannex Live Conference
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Why Focus will be at Plannex Live 26 - and why you should be too

Focus is proud to sponsor Plannex Live 2026, one of the UK's most innovative events for ambitious financial planners. Taking place in Manchester on 8–9 July.

9 Jun 2026
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Empowering advice through technology: Why EATT is the event for future-focused advisers

Why Empowering Advice Through Technology (EATT) 2026 matters for advice firms, and how Focus is helping advisers turn technology into better outcomes.

15 Jan 2026
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Cutting Through the AI Noise: Where Technology Actually Matters in Financial Advice

Sanj Champaneria on where AI sits in the advice process, and why capture must pair with explainable analysis.

1 Dec 2025
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Bridging the gap: Reflections from the PFS National Conference 2025

Dave Upton shares what the profession is doing to close the advice, talent, innovation and generation gaps after the PFS National Conference 2025.

15 Nov 2025
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NFU Mutual goes live with Focus Advice Technology's new platform

Focus Advice Technology deploys its next-generation advice platform with NFU Mutual, delivering holistic financial planning at scale.

10 Nov 2025
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Mind the gap: bridging the divides shaping the future of financial advice

Ahead of the PFS National Conference 2025, Focus explores how to close the advice, talent, innovation and generation gaps.

1 Nov 2025

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