Technology

Hargreaves Lansdown, Friends Provident and Prudential shared five winners' awards at the fifth annual Online Finance Awards 2004 held last evening.

Clerical Medical has launched a website specifically for IFAs offering advice and guidance on pre-A-Day issues.

IFA firm Worldwide Financial Planning has launched its own A-day website to help consumers understand key pension changes taking affect in April 2006

Origo, the developer of standards for ecommerce applications and supplier of digital certificates, is holding a "focus group" meeting for London-based IFAs on 1 December to discuss ecommerce in light of depolarisation and other regulatory changes.

Provider Standard Life has launched the second in its series of guides to technology for IFAs.

Smaller financial services firms may face the greatest threat of electronic financial crime, suggests an FSA report, because they are less likely to have systems in place to monitor and maintain security.

Technology giant LogicaCMG is launching a third-party outsourcing service from next month for IFAs looking for a better and cheaper way to manage valuations of client portfolios.

Webline plans to launch quotations for annuities, traded endowment policies and general insurance such as ASU and household by early January next year.

Lipper, the Reuters fund information supplier subsidiary, has won the tender to provide the ABI with data to beef up monitoring of investment classifications for life and pension funds.

Technology provider Dunstan Thomas' latest survey of IFAs, pensions administrators and providers suggests they face a herculean effort in order to overcome the challenges of A-Day.