Technology

Group 300 has become the second independent distributor signed to the wrap platform developed by American Express, following a similar agreement with IFA Thinc announced last month.

Wrap provider Selestia is offering a new tool for calculating income yields from portfolios, which should speed up the process of smoothing income over the year and eliminate the time-consuming process of entering manual calculations.

Consumers will be able to check their credit ratings history with Equifax, one of the UK's two main providers of such information, through a new online service.

Bringing multiple tools together in a single application - to enhance distributors' abilities to provide suitable asset allocation decisions - is the goal of Distribution Technology's new technology being launched tomorrow.

Aviva has just announced the sale of Your Move estate agency and e.surv conveyancing service to Barclays Private Equity for £42m.

Friends Provident has now launched an online income protection application which also allows intermediaries to track the progress of policies to issuance.

More regulation, new online services, growing provider support and demands from IFAs and others for ease of use are strengthening the case for digital certification technology, says Garry Miller, Origo Secure Internet Services general manager.

A free service has been launched which allows firms to check whether business telephone and fax numbers are on the ‘opt-out' list from receiving direct marketing cold calls.

Oh dear. That must be the understated reaction of at least a few people in the industry today with news Origo, the standards organisation, and Webline, the quotes provider, have agreed to a separation over the issue of UNIPASS.

Controversial findings of a Norwich Union survey suggest insurance brokers comfortable with technology would not be sad to see a thinning of the ranks of intermediaries who are less used to IT in business.