Online hub Gretel launches to find dormant assets 'in three minutes'

'£50bn to recover'

Julia Bahr
clock • 3 min read

Gretel, a free platform that reunites consumers with lost and dormant accounts across financial services products, has gone live.

The technology, part of IntelliTeq, was built to help solve the challenge of reuniting forgotten funds and accounts with their rightful owners and simplifies what used to be a long and complicated process, Gretel said. The firm said the process can be done in three minutes, searching across pension funds, bank accounts, child trust funds, life insurance products and more. Duncan Stevens, chief executive of Gretel, said the online hub was a huge step forwards in solving the longstanding issue of dormant assets in financial services: "Knowing the scale of what Gretel can achieve for peo...

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