Technology

American Express is building on its wrap model by announcing a deal to offer access to all 4,000 UK funds from 266 providers coupled with data from Standard & Poor's.

Key to the creation of Royal Liver's new virtual life company was from early creation dependent on its technology capabilities.

Royal Liver Assurance is just weeks away from launching the UK's first virtual life office and a new distribution channel targeting IFAs.

An equity release trading platform from The Exchange will allow intermediaries and networks to apply own branding for use in websites and intranets.

Newly launched mortgage network First4brokers has unveiled an online 'fastrack approval' process which it says clears an adviser's FSA authorisation to trade within just 14 days.

Trigold's Prospector AAA mortgage compliance software will soon be available through the Exweb IFA portal service thanks to a new deal between the Exchange and Trigold.

There is now just one more week to go before the IFAonline Games closes for the year but even at this late stage, the leader boards are fiercely competitive as a hard core of players are still battling it out for first place.

Cboxx, developer of income and business modelling software for large IFA firms says it is working on a concept that could result in sales to smaller IFAs of a stripped down version of at one of its products.

Standard Life has published the first in a series of reference guides to information technology for IFAs.

Information provider Standard & Poor's has launched a free funds pricing service online to compete with paper-based services already available.