Mark Polson: Why 2018 was a tipping point for the platform sector

This has been the biggest year in platforms since the Retail Distribution Review. We have had four IPOs plus the arrival of MiFID II, PROD and the Investment Platforms Market Study Interim Report - all on top of greater market volatility than we have seen for many a year. Yet 2018 will best be remembered as the year that re-platforming broke, or possibly the year that broke re-platforming. With several platforms undergoing largescale, multi-year tech projects, re-platforming has been an ongoing theme for the industry, but 2018 was a definite tipping point. This year the lang cat's Advise...