Ascentric to shut down new and old platform for four days

The Royal London-owned platform has informed advisers both platforms have been shut down from Friday 4 January and will be available again from Tuesday 8 January. It acknowledged there was a "small chance" some clients would not be migrated if there was uncertainty about them making a smooth transition but remained optimistic the risk of that happening "has been greatly minimised". This comes after the firm told Professional Adviser in 2017 it would not shut down the platform during normal working hours in its re-platforming move. "There should be no outages outside of our usual outage c...