Virtual life office gets real with technology

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Key to the creation of Royal Liver's new virtual life company was from early creation dependent on its technology capabilities.

Royal Liver decided making progress in the delivery of service and administration of today's UK life offices now lies in simplicity of technology usage. Warr and his team wanted to create an online operation to match the firm's brand - to show the 'progress' name can also mean progression of the UK financial services industry. Technology is now seen by IFAs to be so complex, the drive is move to simpler, more cost-effective systems represent the next step in technological development and understanding. At this early stage, progress is still working on the development on processing cla...

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