National Friendly debuts on Iress' financial platform

Offers over-50s life assurance and income protection products

Hemma Visavadia
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Iress has annnounced that insurer National Friendly has gone live on its financial professional’s platform, The Exchange, to help drive growth in its over-50s life assurance and income protection products.

The Bristol-based mutual society has selected Iress' quote and apply portal, The Exchange, to expand the distribution footprint of its protection offering. National Friendly launched its income protection proposition in October last year, aimed at providing protection in the event of illness and accidents, has a "common-sense" underwriting approach. Dave Miller, Iress' executive general manager, commercial, said that The Exchange will enable National Friendly to "rapidly drive growth". "We're looking forward to increasing that pace of change even further as new products go live in ...

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