Networks increase online sourcing focus

Since the recent unveiling of its ‘one-stop shop’ online sourcing and application platform, Evaluate has experienced a huge response from all segments of intermediary distribution; from small brokerages to a number of large network groups.

These high levels of interest has confirmed Evaluate’s view that brokers are increasingly ready to step out of their comfort zones and abandon old fashioned systems in favour of new technology. This embracing of technology will enable businesses to diversify cost-effectively and attract the large, growing segment of the market that wishes to source financial services products online.

Heralding 2009 as the year of online solutions, Evaluate is urging networks, distributors and brokers of all sizes to embrace the speed, accuracy and efficiency of online systems to maximise business volumes.

Evaluate Technologies’ ‘one-stop shop’ online sourcing solution offers a fully up-to-date and accurate whole of market B2B sourcing which includes direct to lender products. In addition vast incremental earning potential is offered by the EvaluateConsumer sourcing engine which can be white-labelled to help brokers target the growing numbers of consumers who are committed to playing some role in sourcing their own financial solutions. Evaluate is committed to the integration of complementary sales opportunities to the platform over the coming months. It views this as key to helping brokers broaden the services they are able to offer which will prove crucial over the coming months.

Julie Speed, National Accounts Director at Evaluate Technologies, said:

“We are in discussions with a large number of networks and distributors across various sectors of the market as mortgage and IFA firms are increasingly looking to add extra value to their proposition. The positive feedback we have received from our recent ‘one-stop shop’ online sourcing solution has further convinced us that the majority of the market now view online solutions as the only way forward in achieving this. Firm’s priorities are changing especially with TCF now firmly embedded and there is a clear appetite for online technology as it becomes increasingly apparent that current systems are not the future of such a rapidly developing marketplace.”