outsourcing

UK companies are wasting up to £1.5m and twenty four months on developing unnecessary web-based applications each time they offshore business processes, new research has revealed.

Nick McBreen, independent financial adviser with Worldwide Financial Planning, looks at the benefits of outsourced multimanager investments and how it affects adviser-client relations.

Technology giant LogicaCMG is launching a third-party outsourcing service from next month for IFAs looking for a better and cheaper way to manage valuations of client portfolios.

Prospects of a counter-bid for Abbey National group are increasing, says the Daily Telegraph.

Risks associated with outsourcing financial services have been highlighted by the spectacular profits warning from travel promotions company Landround, which is responsible for handling points-for-travel claims from customers of a new credit card from...

Regulation of the mortgage sector after October this year could lead Aviva's surveying services company E.surv to do deals with networks such as Sesame or Inter-Alliance if lenders can be persuaded to relinquish some control over the valuation process....