Technology

Protection advisers need to help clients identify health risks to negotiate lower premiums, online health and wellbeing service vielife has said.

It's been some years since Dan Waters from the FSA first expressed concern about the use of platforms by advisory firms.

A new app designed to help employers rebalance their employee benefits package to the advantage of their business and staff has been launched by Unum.

Bill Safran, former CEO of Trigold, has launched a screen-sharing technology aimed at banks and insurance companies called vscreen.

The top five intermediary platforms will likely show their hand on protection propositions in the second half of the year, a technology and consultancy firm to the major intermediary platforms has reported.

An aggregator will be partnering with many IFA firms in a bid to serve all client needs.

An IFA firm has partnered with an aggregator and launched its first automated, non-advised proposition for protection business.

A life assurance proposition is being piloted through Nucleus, the IFA-owned wrap platform.

The NHS has launched a tool to enable staff to implement and improve innovation as set out by chief executive David Nicholson.

COVER recently held a breakfast briefing on international private medical insurance (IPMI) to explore the emerging developments in the sector.