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HBOS business Clerical Medical has launched an online resource called Workbench, which brings together a number of tools and support for financial advisers.

Podcasting of personal finance information, and even advice, could figure highly in the future of adviser-client relationships following the launch of just such a service.

Legal & General has added two protection options to its existing quote and apply extranet as eight out of ten protection policies are now administered over the internet.

Completing mortgage cases through a firm's online decisions system is worth as much £35,000 a year to intermediaries, argues GMAC-RFC.

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

Progress from Royal Liver is considering developing online applications and underwriting which could be intuitively tailored to match the age, sex and medical conditions of the person applying for the protection product.

National Savings & Invesments has started selling its flagship premium bonds online to holders of Switch/Maestro or Visa debit cards, some seven months after the move was first reported in IFAonline.

An important online tool has gone live in the shape of the Land Registry's database of 19 million English and Welsh properties.

Information provider Standard & Poor's has launched a free funds pricing service online to compete with paper-based services already available.

Consumers will be able to check their credit ratings history with Equifax, one of the UK's two main providers of such information, through a new online service.