Technology

IFA network Sesame has taken its first step into web-based support training with the launch of a new service to be rolled out online over the next few months.

Packagers have voiced their concern at recent development of the BM Solutions website as further moves designed to cut them out of the mortgage market.

Friends Provident has added the portfolio planning section of Distribution Technology's Dynamic Planner to its online tools and created additional functionality specifically for its extranet.

The Investment Management Association and online data provider Financial Express have this morning unveiled new fund pricing tools for consumers.

Standard Life has rolled a new webcast facility to help IFAs understand how its web tools work and explain the company's thinking on terms of products and services offered.

Mike O'Leary, chief executive of Marlborough Stirling, says intermediaries should see no hiving off of The Exchange as a result of today's bid announcement.

Attempts by online mortgage intermediary TML Financial Solutions to put a full consumer-useable KFI on its website have been put on ice after tests showed customers were turned off by the facility.

United Utilities, formerly known as North West Water, has tabled a £95.3m bid for Marlborough Stirling through its wholly owned subsidiary Vertex Data Science.

Survey respondents suggesting they are likely to go multi-tie in the next two quarters are divided over whether to do so using existing or new solutions.

The DTI's Businesslink website has launched a series of free practice advice and tools to try and help smaller businesses and managers keep up-to-date on general regulatory changes and information to be supplied to employees.