Technology

Solicitors Independent Financial Advice, SIFA, the association of solicitor and accountant-led financial advice businesses, has launched an online funds selection services it says improves on blunt information from ratings agencies.

Assureweb is now wholly-owned by a consortium of five product providers as Misys has sold Sesame's remaining 60% stake in the IFA portal to its existing shareholders.

Users of UNIPASS, the digital certificate technology replacing different website usernames and passwords, can now calculate time and money saved by using the service.

The Exchange and Trigold have extended the integration of their two trading platforms to enable Trigold users to link directly to The Exchanges quotation and transaction services on its Exweb portal.

Some familiar gripes emerged about the existing wrap propositions - lack of fund choice and hidden or high charges. Many still consider that there is no true wrap proposition on the market

Product upgrades and a new Compliance Centre service have been confirmed by 1st Software for the next 12 months.

Completing mortgage cases through a firm's online decisions system is worth as much £35,000 a year to intermediaries, argues GMAC-RFC.

A panel of product providers, IFA portals and back office software firms has announced plans to set aside commercial pressures and collaborate on the development of IFA technology and support service tools.

The Association of IFAs is planning to release a guide on the new FSA regulatory reporting system in a bid to help intermediary firms complete the required data.

The FSA is rolling out a series of sector-specific regulation and guidance handbooks specifically targeted at small firms.