Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. (FPSB), owner of the international CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER certification program outside of the United States, reported another year of strong growth in 2016, as the FPSB network added 18,435 CFP professionals and the total number of CFP professionals rose to 170,101 worldwide. With a net increase of 8,280 CFP professionals, FPSB and its member organizations experienced robust annual growth of 5.1%, almost double that of the previous year.