Phoenix Group is extending its strategic partnership with technology provider TCS to help grow the company’s workplace business. This extended partnership will now provide services for Standard Life Assurance, which Phoenix acquired...
Robo adviser OpenMoney has purchased employee benefits platform Jargonfree Benefits (JFB). The Manchester-based digital advice firm says this was part of plans to move into the workplace sector and extend access to...
September was hugely significant in the context of Open Finance and the path to helping the millions of employees, who cannot afford traditional financial advice take more control of their financial lives....
Banks and pension providers are more trusted on ‘data’ than many technology companies, but are looking at how they can utilise this resource for their customers' benefit. Speaking at the CA summit,...
Consultancy and administration firm Buck has launched a new digital assessment app for DB schemes trustees and company sponsors. This application will give access to a range of information on how a...
The Money and Pensions Service has appointed Angela Pober as implementation director of the Pensions Dashboard Industry Delivery Group. In this new role Pober will lead the implementation executive of the IDG,...
GBST has upgraded its pension drawdown offering, enabling clients more flexibility about how they take an income in retirement. GBST provides wealth administration software through its composer platform, and said these changes...
Financial advisers are wasting an average of 43 days a year with onboarding tasks that could be automated by technology, according to new research. The research found that parts of the advice...
The Chartered Insurance Institute is calling for insurers to tackle gender bias within their artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Many insurers now use this AI technology within their claims, underwriting and marketing processes. However...
The idea of a Government- sponsored web-based pension planning tool has been around for quite some time. Back in the early noughties Labour’s DWP secretary of state Andrew Smith outlined an online planner,...
