Technology

Origo, the standards body for e-commerce in the UK financial services industry, will add time-saving administration functions to its agency registration service by the last quarter of the year.

Zurich has launched software enabling advisers to assess the comparative returns from UK investment bonds and unit trusts.

Standard Life launched its online dedicated SIPP solution to advisers earlier this week, offering a new fund trading service.

Advisers can receive commission statements electronically and match them against their expected income after the latest launch by IFA technology provider Plum Software.

Friends Provident has re-launched its online info centre, bringing the firm's news, information and resources together in one place.

Orbiter, a new online mortgage sourcing and processing service, is to begin a formal broker pilot next week.

Risk profiling, asset allocation and stochastic modeling tools have come a long way since the turn of the millennium when they first appeared.

Nearly three quarters of advisers could be in breach of TCF as they migrate clients over to wrap platforms, according to a new survey by technology solutions provider Dunstan Thomas.

Advisers are missing out on the latest fund innovation because supermarkets are reluctant to add offshore vehicles to platforms, HSBC Investments says.

Standard Life has launched an online tool to provide tax efficient income projections for advisers and their clients.