Technology

American Express is not relaxing its vetting principles for doing deals with IFAs over use of its wrap account, but is widening the list of potential contacts as it moves to add services to the platform.

Depolarisation has led Standard Life to drop the ‘ifa' moniker from its ifazone.com service, which instead is being relaunched as adviserzone.com.

The Exchange has launched its upgraded service Exweb Gold, which includes all existing Exweb services as well as additional services such as in-force contract management and aggregated real-time policy valuations for pensions and bonds.

UK retail stockbrokers are being offered a new service from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein which enables them to trade directly on all of Europe's major stockmarkets, including the NYSE and Nasdaq, using a single connection.

Many general insurers and brokers will not be compliant to operate under the new FSA regulations which come into force from January 15th, suggests a technology survey.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) will launch online examinations at over 2,000 stations in both the UK and internationally, as part of an ongoing effort to make its exams more easily available.

The Exchange has made it two in a row to add a contract win to power IFA Millfield's multi-tie operation in addition to the previous agreement covering the distributor's whole of market advisers.

The long-awaited wrap offering from Lifetime Group will finally hit the market next week, when details are unveiled to delegates at Millfield Group's national conference.

Selestia is unveiling a number of changes to its transaction platform which will require clients to pay a flat fee each year to use the wrap service.

A customiseable, web-based funds and equities analysis service has been launched by Financial Express called ‘Analytics'.