A day of IT 'firsts'

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Industry technology providers Capita and Vertex have announced a flurry of ‘firsts' set to hit the market and provide business benefits to IFAs.

At the Capita Enabler Journalist Forum, Webline announced a password reminder system is being introduced to enable intermediaries to access provider extranets in addition to or instead of using Unipass digital certificates. That said, the system is not a digital certificate technology replacing Unipass certificates and any Unipass operation would remain unaffected. Managing director John Willis says it is the equivalent of taking “yellow sticky notes off the desk” as the reminder forms the first part of a troika of solutions together aimed at improving electronic submissions. The secon...

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