Tech review: Mark Polson reviews D2C 'contender' rplan

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Mark Polson takes a closer look at D2C outfit rplan...

Sometimes you just can’t win. After dropping a couple of bombs on Money on Toast last time, it went on the very next day to win a leading innovation award at the Aberdeen Platform of the Year hoopla. So this time I’ve checked the calendar very carefully, and I think we’re fine. No awards for a while. So, continuing our occasional series of the new direct to customer (D2C) platforms, let’s turn our eye to rplan, one of the slicker and fully featured contenders. First, a few basics: rplan kicked off in 2010, the long-planned brainchild of Andy Creak (ex-big kahuna at Cofunds) and Andrew...

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