Migrations and acquisitions: A year in adviser platforms

Platforms reloaded

Sophie King
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As this year comes to an end and New Year celebrations begin, the time has come to consider some of the most memorable moments for platforms in 2019...

OMW enters 'soft launch' phase of re-platforming project As those of us who reluctantly took part in Dry January were finally allowed a sip of our favourite alcoholic beverage again, Old Mutual Wealth completed a "soft launch" of the platform it has been developing, which saw a number of staff move onto its FNZ-powered platform as it prepared to migrate advised clients to the new tech. Re-platforming was one of the big themes of 2018 with Aegon, Aviva and Ascentric all suffering troubles and we are still waiting for OMW (Quilter) to start moving clients to its newly-built platform, a lon...

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