Technology

1st Software has become a member of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries and is offering AMI membership discounts to those who use its services.

Standard & Poor's has responded to criticism levelled last week by IFA Alan Steel Asset Management by stating there has been a misunderstanding between its "ratings" and "rankings".

Marlborough Stirling portal The Exchange has signed up to use UNPASS digital certificates, which can be used alongside the portal's existing log-in system.

Delegates to this year's Dealing With Technology conference heard a number of predictions on different IT themes affecting the broker/dealer end of financial services.

Free software and a one-day conference event are being planned for mortgage intermediaries by software developer Focus Solutions as part of its drive into the pending regulated mortgage market.

Provider Standard Life has launched its bulk data download facility for both group and individual pensions, including valuations, fund allocations and payment details.

The third annual Focus Quotient survey of ecommerce in financial services has found another step-change in the use of electronic means to write and transact new and existing business.

The Institute of Financial Services, IFS, has signed a four-year deal with education publisher Pearson to deliver online training and testing of qualifications including CeMAP for regulated mortgage advisers.

Aqera, a software firm developing wrap platform technology, says research into the development, distribution and costings of wrap solutions suggests new business processes plus cost savings could undermine the position of current financial product providers...

Mandatory electronic reporing requirements coming into force over the next couple of years should be a smooth process, as enabling technologies working behind the scenes have the support from software developers and industry, says the man heading the...