Having the right technology behind you is now a given, but it is just as important to ensure that technology works seamlessly with your business and does not itself become a burden. We provide market-leading solutions as part of your membership fee and you won’t be on your own, we have more support to help with adoption and use than ever before.

As the UK's largest provider of regulatory and business support to directly authorised financial services professionals, we offer our Members exclusive access to our all-encompassing, complimentary Centra planning tool, to leading investment research, client support and training - SimplyBiz have everything you need.

Industry-Leading Financial Planning Tools

Centra is our market-leading end-to-end financial planning tool which seamlessly encapsulates risk profiling, research, and suitability reporting into one easy to use system, providing five complimentary licences to our Members as part of the ongoing investment services we provide:

Financial Planning

A choice of risk profiling questionnaires and goal based financial planning.

Research

Complete three-way integrated research, incorporating investment, tax wrapper and platform research.

Suitability Reports

Create compliant and concise suitability reports that are backed by our trusted regulatory experts.

Client Reviews

Enables you to review client goals, existing holdings and document on-going suitability with ease.

Built by advisers, for advisers, Centra is constantly developing in line with your feedback to ensure we continue to deliver a best in breed solution for advisers which strengthens your compliance while enhancing your client relationships.

New Centra features include:

Centra

Discover Income Drawdown

It's never been easier to deliver suitable and compliant retirement advice with the new Income Drawdown workflow in Centra.

Discover Income Drawdown

DC Pension Switching Tool

Allowing you to efficiently and compliantly compare multiple pension switching scenarios.

DC Pension Switching Tool

Connect with clients

Deliver digital advice with Centra’s integrated video conferencing solution enhancing your sustainability and client relationships by giving clients a choice in how they interact with you. Plus, you can now conduct client meetings remotely thanks to Centra's in-built secure video conferencing solution. You can save time by sending pre-populated and secure meeting invitations via Centra and conducting client reviews and other meetings online with the ability to share your screen should you wish.

Connect with clients

Do more with Centra and Intelliflo

To power greater efficiencies into your advice process, Centra effortlessly integrates with Intelliflo. This single technology eco-system drives business efficiencies and processes while strengthening your compliance through automated processes, with built-in reports that can help meet your regulatory requirements.

Discover Income Drawdown
Intelliflo Office

Transform your business with Intelliflo Office

Using an open architecture philosophy, Intelliflo Office is more than just a back-office system.

It lets you manage the entire advice process within a single technology eco-system, connecting you with:

  • Software partners
  • Platforms
  • Fund managers
  • Product providers, and
  • Most importantly - your clients

Clients of Compliance First can access Intelliflo Office at a preferential rate, and it seamlessly integrates with Centra delivering even greater efficiencies in your advice process.

Intelliflo Office drives business efficiencies and processes with improved ROI by streamlining the administration processes, cutting costs and giving you more time back to spend nurturing client relationships and growing your business.

  • Reduce your costs and enjoy the convenience of 24/7 remote access
  • Save time by managing the entire advice process via one user-friendly system
  • Key in your client’s data once and use it for many different purposes
  • Scale to suit the size of your business
  • Integrate the tools you use most via the intelliflo store, showcasing 100+ ‘best of breed’ platforms, product providers and more

Intelliflo Office provides protection for your business through automated processes that are efficient and compliant.

Give your clients a bird’s eye view of their finances with the Intelliflo Office Personal Finance Portal

Secure messaging

Strengthen client relationships with secure online messaging, allowing clients to communicate with you anytime, anywhere, and in turn can free up more of your time.

Clients see all their financial information in one place

The Personal Finance Portal also acts as a self-service point empowering your clients to populate their fact find data or get updated product valuations, ensuring your information is up to date.

Reduce admin costs and risk with secure document sharing

Share, confirm and submit documents securely saving you time and money on administration costs whilst reducing the risk that comes with sharing documents via unsecured email or the post.

SmartSearch

SmartSearch

With SmartSearch, you can enjoy complete peace of mind knowing that all your AML compliance needs are covered by one easy to use platform.

SmartSearch offers a unique platform delivering Anti Money Laundering (AML) searches and verifications on Individuals and Businesses across the UK and International Markets, including automatic Sanction and PEP screening.

It provides an inbuilt range of daily monitoring, email alert systems and real-time information management, from which to deliver biography, adverse media and photographic evidence in response to "alerted events". Their principal data partners are Experian, both global information services companies. These long-standing relationships provides the deepest data coverage across the UK Market and comprehensive coverage in most International Markets.

SmartSearch recently announced its newly developed Facial Recognition and TripleCheck technologies. These enhancements ensure additional security to all AML and ID checks, without conducting face-to-face meetings, guaranteeing all checks can be completed remotely.

SimplyBiz Investment Services

Expert investment intelligence to power your investment advice process.

Providing you access to new in-depth investment research, market-leading financial planning tools and dedicated investment support.

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