Technology

There is a technology that US businesses, including insurers, have adopted wholesale, but that the UK has been slow to pick up. Guy Williams explains

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Direct life has launched a fully comparable buy now life insurance policy, available to advisers through Direct Life's LifeQuote service and direct to the public through Confused.com.

Technology is on the cusp of delivering fundamental change to the underwriting of protection products industry experts have said.

Capita Regulatory Services has partnered with LeanApps, a standard software provider for the insurance and pensions markets.

There is overwhelming support amongst protection advisers for the introduction e-signatures to speed up underwriting of products such as life cover, critical illness and income protection.

KPMG International has released an industry paper, "How well is the life insurance industry keeping pace with rapidly changing technology?", which found it is at risk of falling behind through not embracing today's technologies.

Ageas Protect has launched its products on IRESS', The Exchange multi-benefit protection comparison service.

F&TRC has launched Quality Analyser, a tool for Protection comparison, providing feature and function comparisons on protection insurance and has received backing from industry trade bodies.

Canada Life Group Insurance has re-launched its ‘Canada Life Automated Self Service' (CLASS) in order to improve the user experience.