Finseca and IAQFP announce merger

Washington, DC [January 7, 2026] — Today, Finseca and the International Association of Qualified Financial Planners (IAQFP) announced their merger.

“I’m so grateful for Paul and the IAQFP’s leadership for their efforts to unify the Financial Planning designations. We know that when consumers have a holistic financial plan, they get better outcomes. But we also know that many families are confused and not sure where to turn. As Finseca’s ninth integration, this merger is another step in Finseca working to unify this profession so that we can help more families get the advice and products they need to be financially secure. It is only through a unified profession that we will have the scale to advance the cause of financial security for all,” said Marc Cadin, CEO of Finseca.

“IAQFP was created to unite the profession and professionals in the specific field of Financial Planning under a readily ascertainable, proven standard of education, examination, experience, and ethics who are those IAQFP Certified—Financial Planners widely known as Qualified Financial Planners (“QFP”), which was introduced in 2003, to unify the profession of Financial Planning around a single, trusted standard (“One Profession-One Designation”). The heart of this unification merger is the people we serve. IAQFP has full confidence in Finseca to protect the integrity of the QFP designation and to significantly expand the number of QFPs for the benefit of a much-deserving public,” said Paul League, Co-Founder, Chairperson & President of IAQFP.

Central to this effort is the longstanding IAQFP commitment to preserving the integrity of the QFP designation and its online public QFP Registry resource — “The place to both find and verify Qualified Financial Planners (QFP),” a commitment Finseca fully embraces.

Finseca members, others in the broader financial services field, and those who have earned one or more of the herein listed, underlying qualifying designations of the Financial Planning profession, are eligible to use the QFP and to gain immediate inclusion in the free, online, 24/7, QFP Verification Registry of Qualified Financial Planners:

• Personal Financial Specialist® (PFS)

• Certified Financial Planner (CFP®)

• Chartered Financial Consultant® (ChFC®)

• Master of Science in Financial Planning (MS)*

• Master of Science in Financial Services with a Financial Planning concentration (MSFS)*

  (the latter two with a concentrated study in Financial Planning subject matter)

Uniting the above under the single unifying QFP identifier makes it easier for people to both find and verify Qualified Financial Planners offering either comprehensive or modular Financial Planning services.

Finseca is assuming responsibility for running and keeping  IAQFP and the QFP Registry.