Pensions management

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Plum moves into retirement savings

Fintech investment app Plum has launched its first pensions product.

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FCA to require pension providers to offer to book Pension Wise appointments for consumers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today proposed new rules to require pension providers to ‘nudge’ consumers to Pension Wise in order to benefit from guidance before they access their defined contribution pension savings. This includes booking an appointment with Pension Wise if the consumer wishes.

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Retirement guidance tool Guiide raises funding

Scottish fintech Guiide has raised further investment as it looks to help provide more help to individuals to achieve better retirement outcomes

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PensionBee to float in April

UK fintech PensionBee has confirmed its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange in April with goal of raising £55 million.

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Mambu deploys Raisin Pension to provide for employees

Berlin-based fintechs Raisin and Mambu are collaborating to provide Mambu’s multinational team in Germany a flexible, cost-effective company pension plan.

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MPs slam Action Fraud, FCA and tech giants over pension scams

Global tech firms such as Google should be held to account for hosting pension scam adverts with legislation needed to stop them profiting from a multibillion-pound scam industry, MPs say today.

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Pensions app Penfold taps TrueLayer for Open Banking payments

TrueLayer, the leading technology company building financial infrastructure that’s open to everyone and Penfold, the first pension scheme designed specifically with self-employed workers in mind, have partnered to deliver instant, secure payments for its customers to fund their pension.

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PensionBee to give customers early access to IPO

UK fintech PensionBee is working with PrimaryBid to give its customers first dibs on its putative London listing.

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Barclays forms partnership with Smart Pension

Barclays has inked a deal with Smart Pension that will see the UK lending giant promote the online pension provider to its business banking clients.

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Cushon unveils net-zero pension plan

Cushon, the fintech workplace savings disrupter, today announces that it has launched the world’s first net zero pension.

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PensionBee releases pension product for the self-employed

Leading online pension provider, PensionBee, has launched a flexible product for self-employed consumers, enabling them to start a new pension with no minimum contributions.

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PensionBee launches fossil fuel free fund

Online pension provider PensionBee has launched a fossil fuel free fund, created in partnership with Legal & General Investment Management.

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SE 2buys Convergent Financial Technologies

SE2, a life and annuities insurance technology and services firm, today announced it has acquired Convergent Financial Technologies, growing its SaaS based product offerings for the insurance and retirement solutions industry.

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PensionBee explores London listing

UK fintech PensionBee is planning to list on the London Stock Exchange, in a move that could value the company at more than £300 million.

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Pension calculator Guiide secures funding

Scottish fintech Guiide has raised an undisclosed round of investment to help people who don’t, won’t or can’t take advice for their pensions.

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Scottish Widows to divest £440m from companies that pose significant ESG risk

Scottish Widows is to divest at least £440 million from companies that have failed to meet its environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards, and warned this figure could grow much further if companies do not take action to improve the sustainability of their business practices.

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CMA blocks investment technology merger between FNZ and GBST

The UK's Competition and Markets Authroity (CMA) has ordered FNZ to sell GBST after finding the merger between the investment platforms could lead to a reduction in service quality and higher prices for consumers.

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Vantik unveils 'pension in your pocket'

Because statutory and occupational pension are not sufficient for financial independence in old age, a modern solution is required: With the Vantikcard, the fintech company Vantik brings pension planning directly into the pockets of the smartphone generation.

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Coutts MD: Sustainability is about ‘unpeeling’ investment decision making

Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.

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Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.