Industry veteran Ian McKenna, founder of AdviserSoftware.com and the Financial Technology Research Centre, comments on the bid for ASX listed Iress: “For some time, adviser technology has been evolving into a global business and Iress was one of the very first firms to start this trend. The established management team has a strong track record of delivering scale solutions to financial advice firms in multiple jurisdictions. The growing collaboration between financial regulators is making it far easier to build and deploy solutions across many different countries with suitable localisation. 

“Iress are strong players in wealth, mortgages and life insurance so have offerings that can support the full long-term savings and protection landscape. Even if the current bidder does not proceed, I expect many others will now be taking a good look at this firm which certainly has a lot to offer.”

Ian McKenna is an industry veteran with over 26 years’ experience. He founded the Financial Technology Research Centre in 1995 which is arguably the first ever dedicated Fintech analyst house. Ian is available for interviews on request. Please get in contact with Lansons for more details.