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The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has launched a web page for members providing information on equity release products and a "good practice" factsheet.

Waiting for payments to clear should be a thing of the past from 2007 as banks have agreed to implement same-day clearing on telephone and internet transactions.

In part two of his series about internet marketing, David Elms , chief executive of IFA Promotion , points out inrermediaries don't need to develop ‘all-singing all-dancing' sites to have an internet presence.

In the first of two articles about internet marketing, David Elms , chief executive of IFA Promotion , sets out how the net has changed intermediary's marketing message and the client's search for a financial adviser.

Standard Life has launched an online interactive service for advisers to guide them through technical pension questions.

IFA directory provider IFA Promotions may eventually 'switch off' all traditional media marketing and concentrate on marketing only through online services and search engines.

UK inflation is likely to rise in the medium to long term, suggests Legal & General, because the cost of global purchasing is likely to rise eventually, along with higher wage demands.

UK retail stockbrokers are being offered a new service from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein which enables them to trade directly on all of Europe's major stockmarkets, including the NYSE and Nasdaq, using a single connection.