Sesame Bankhall to plug Portavista gap with new platform

Katrina Lloyd
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Sesame Bankhall is planning a new investment platform to fill the gap left by Bankhall's Portavista which closed earlier this year.

Launched back in May 2008, Portavista was forced to close as Capita stopped supplying the Enabler technology backing the platform. Stephen Young, currently chief operating officer at Sesame Bankhall, will now head up a new unit focused on delivering a range of new business initiatives, including an investment platform to be unveiled later this year. He will be replaced as COO by George Higginson who will join Sesame Bankhall in early 2011 from his previous role at Intrinsic, where he was one of the founding directors, as well as the chairman of the Mint IFA Network. Higginson will ...

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