What New Year's Eve fireworks teach us about adviser tech

What New Year's Eve fireworks teach us about adviser tech

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With 2015 having started with the now traditional ‘bang' across the skies of the UK, Mark Loosmore takes a look at how the use of technology is helping deliver eye-catching results for clients.

As we all settle back into the swing of things in the New Year, many of us will have spent the early hours of January enjoying the fireworks displays which helped us to ring in 2015. An estimated quarter of a million people converged on the banks of the River Thames in London to watch a spectacular fireworks set to music. But how many people will take the time to think how vital technology is in ensuring these amazing displays - in the case of London including being showered with peach-flavoured snow and edible banana confetti - are delivered without a hitch? Specialist software to...

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