“Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN.” Jana Mackintosh Managing Director, Payment Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance ​We’re proud to announce that – together with R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology and services firm – we have been selected to produce the technology prototype for the experimentation phase of the UK’s Regulated Liability Network , led by UK Finance and supported by EY. ​The UK RL

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In this article, Wealth Wizards’ Simon Binney discusses the merits of self-serve and hybrid advice and how it could increase adviser revenues by 225%. The next few years will see exponential use of self-serve and hybrid advice as the financial services industry takes advantage of developments in technology and consumers feel increasingly comfortable using digital services. In understanding how hybrid advice can fit into an advice firm’s business model and provide a route into

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