Tech review: Mark Polson reviews Nucleus's social media experiment Speakeasy

Mark Polson reviews Nucleus's social media experiment, Speakeasy

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Mark Polson, founder of the lang cat, reviews technological things for Professional Adviser. Here, he runs the rule on Nucleus Financial's latest crack at social media...

Platforms have it tough. Yes, you read that right. You might think it's all 1977 David Bowie parties, with Iman in diaphanous gowns and persons of restricted growth with bowls of Colombian marching powder on their heads. But it's not. In an environment where already wafer-thin margins are under relentless pressure, and where improvements in technology over the past five years have meant that most platforms do most things pretty well, most of the time, how do you mark yourself out? Nucleus has always looked to its ownership structure and the undeniably close relationship it has with us...

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