Technology

BeatThatQuote.com, the two-year-old lead generation business, has broken into the annuities market for the first time, promising to match consumers with best quotes.

The Exchange's decision to introduce fixed term annuities as a new category is an early sign of the "major revolution" set to transform the retirement income market, says fixed term annuity provider Living Time.

Being part of a large software organisation, it is interesting to see how the emerging technology propositions for wrap accounts differ quite radically in their approach. Several are putting forward a one-stop shop where all clients are captured onto...

More than half of the intermediary market would like clients to be able to update their own factfinds online but just one in 10 currently allow customers to do so, according to the results of IFAonline's annual technology survey.

Software and services supplier Misys' interim results suggest its Sesame business is still in a firm position, but subject to a number of question marks according to its group interim results published today.

Another two or three well-known providers are expected to soon join the collaboration exercise just announced by Standard Life and Friends Provident in the area of wrap platforms.

When I ask IFAs about their internet strategy, quite often arms start to cross. Some figures suggest that half of all IFAs do not have a website. Of those that do, most are online replicas of their paper brochure.

Friends Provident and Standard Life will collaborate to share legacy information about clients' existing investment and pensions business on their respective wrap platforms.

I find the Christmas and New Year period is a great time to unwind and spend time with family and friends away from the usual rigours and stresses of a busy working schedule.

Vertex Data Sciences, the business processing outsourcing subsidiary of United Utilities has been sold for 217.5m in cash and debt to a group of US-based private equity firms.