Technology

Norwich Union plans to rebrand its Lifetime wrap proposition in the wake of today's appointment of new managing director Clive Witter.

Allfunds Bank's UK director Holly Mackay is leaving the firm to consider new opportunities elsewhere.

IFA Promotion has added a button to its IFA selection tools which allows the consumer to specify whether they would like to find details of a chartered financial planner.

Standard Life has made charging information on its wrap platform easier along with other alterations designed to improve the management of client wrap portfolios.

Closer analysis of five platform offerings reveal why they may or may not be the system to consider.

Wraps have become the concept every investment intermediary is desperate to understand, as the evidence overseas is they have transformed administration, profitability and client servicing.

Now Friends Provident has joined the wrap party, the question must be asked: just how many offerings does the industry need?

Friends Provident will launch its wrap platform in June 2007 but will only roll it out initially to its "strategic partner" distribution links building wrap panels.

Investment IT provider Selestia is on the cusp of sorting out the final details of an architecture integration with Skandia.

Defaqto is to launch a new wrap research tool for intermediaries on its Aequos Online database in mid-July.