IF website to launch IFA vehicle

Online banking service Intelligent Finance plans to add an IFA-dedicated section to its website from early next year, writes Mohamed Ali Bernat. The website, www.if. com, is launching a small business account in the summer of 2001 through which customers can run their residential or commercial mortgages. Carolyn Kerr, intermediary marketing manager at Intelligent Finance, said this may lead to IFAs being able to use the service to help administer parts of Sipp and SSAS products. The internet bank, a subsidiary of Halifax, takes 50% of its business from professional intermediaries, inclu...