Editor's View: Making moves right across the value chain

The editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 23 June

Hope William-Smith
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Fintel has been busy making moves across the value chain, with our most-read story this week the news of it having taken a 25% equity stake in new specialist tech company, Plannr. The business is a customer relationship capability for financial advisers designed to provide a more ‘intuitive' workflow experience. Mixed in with Defaqto software, it looks like the directly authorised firms who use SimplyBiz are in for a treat. We've talked for far too long in this industry about the pitiful state of technology integration and the pain points caused by poor digitisation; I'm breathing a sigh of...

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