2016 UK Platform Awards to recognise 'Platform of the Decade'

One-off award celebrates event's 10th year

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The Schroders UK Platform Awards dinner - the annual celebration of all that is good and exciting in platform world - will this year take place on 20 September 2016 at the Park Lane Hilton in central London.

The awards will again be hosted by BBC journalist Kate Silverton, with Keith Richards, CEO of the Personal Finance Society, sharing the platform in his role as chair of the judges. As this is the event's 10th year, it will feature a special one-off ‘Platform of the Decade' award that will recognise that platforms should be thought of as a long-term proposition. Platforms are ultimately expensive technology and technology evolves. Most platforms have replaced, or are in the process of replacing, their technology - thereby creating challenges not only for platforms and technology provid...

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