All Data articles – Page 12

  • News

    Maps prioritises dashboards delivery

    2020-06-16T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Money and Pensions Service is increasing its focus on pensions dashboards as a way to deliver for customers, according to its new business plan.

  • News

    Poor data management keeps ombudsman busy

    2020-06-12T00:00:00Z

    The Pensions Ombudsman has ruled in favour of a former bank employee in a dispute about the transfer of deferred pension liabilities, in a case reinforcing the impact that poor data management can have for schemes and members.

  • News

    HMRC to issue GMP final ‘outdated’ data cuts in July

    2020-05-28T00:00:00Z

    HM Revenue & Customs plans to provide defined benefit schemes with final guaranteed minimum pension data cuts by the end of July, despite confirming that some of this information might be out of date and unreliable for use in rectifying incorrect payments.

  • News

    PPF: DWP is ‘key’ for Bauer solution

    2020-05-26T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Pension Protection Fund hopes to use Department for Work and Pensions data to help it implement tricky increases required by the landmark Bauer judgment, according to Sara Protheroe, chief customer officer at the PPF.

  • News

    True scale of pension scams unknown, says PPI

    2020-05-20T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The “true scale” of pension scams remains unknown, as only a minority are reported and data is not collected in comparable ways across the industry, the Pensions Policy Institute has warned.

  • Opinion

    Industry must not be defeatist on dashboards

    2020-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Paul McGlone’s last op-ed as president of the Society of Pension Professionals sees him make an impassioned plea not to abandon hope and impetus behind the dashboards project, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve the industry’s engagement problem.

  • News

    Regulator to be empowered by expansion of ‘snoopers’ charter’

    2020-05-12T00:00:00Z

    The Pensions Regulator is to be given new powers including the right to harvest communications data, in order to prevent “serious crime”, according to draft legislation published last month.

  • News

    DB schemes to face major data exercise for dashboards

    2020-04-08T00:00:00Z

    New requirements to translate defined benefit pensions into an annual income in today’s terms could mean trustees and administrators face a major data exercise to comply with the pensions dashboards, according to experts.

  • News

    Altmann calls for six-month pension transfer hiatus

    2020-03-23T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Former pensions minister Ros Altmann is calling for pension transfers to be put on hold for six months, as fund values could be significantly inaccurate due to the current market turmoil.

  • Girish Menezes
    Opinion

    Pensions technology hampered by underinvestment in data

    2020-03-16T00:00:00Z

    We shop and bank online, receive our Amazon deliveries by drone and sign up to challenger banks like Monzo via apps. Comparatively, pensions administration remains steadfastly behind the curve, writes the Pensions Administration Standards Association’s Girish Menezes.

  • Features

    Fraud costs pensions £6bn every year

    2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Data crunch: Almost a decade after a wave of pension liberation tax schemes hit the UK retirement sector, fraudulent activity is still having a detrimental impact on savers – costing schemes £6bn every year, according to the latest analysis.

  • News

    Email attacks on the Pensions Regulator rise 148%

    2020-03-02T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Pensions Regulator was the target of more than 343,000 email attacks in 2019, an increase of 148 per cent over last year, according to official data.

  • News

    Schemes unable to handle member information requests

    2020-02-27T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Testing of pension schemes and providers' ability to meet savers' requests for information about their benefits has uncovered a litany of failings.

  • News

    Maps to survey schemes on dashboard challenges

    2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Money and Pensions Service has commissioned qualitative research to understand the challenges pension schemes face with providing data for the pensions dashboards.

  • Opinion

    Is the pensions industry up to speed on cyber security?

    2020-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Pension schemes present a treasure trove of valuable data for cyber criminals and scammers, yet most trustees are lagging other financial services sectors. Fieldfisher’s Jeremy Harris and James Walsh explore the key risks and steps to shore up controls.

  • News

    Only six in 10 pensions to be located by dashboards

    2020-02-10T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Savers may only be able to locate six out of ten pension pots when pension dashboards are launched unless the industry starts to improve data quality, PensionBee has warned.

  • News

    Opperman warns providers on dashboard preparations

    2020-01-23T00:00:00Z

    On the go: Pensions minister Guy Opperman has urged providers to start preparing their data now for the anticipated arrival of pensions dashboards.

  • Features

    E-admin hopes dashed by data quality

    2020-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Data crunch: Pensions administrators and open finance enthusiasts may have one eye on the ‘e-admin’ future of full dashboard compliance, modelling and targeted engagement, but a survey of trustees reveals the perennial roadblock – poor-quality member data.

  • News

    Scottish local funds urged to develop information standards

    2020-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Inconsistencies and lack of standardisation in information are frustrating efforts to make a ‘like-for-like’ comparison between local authority funds in Scotland, a new government report has found.

  • Opinion

    Will open finance transform financial services?

    2020-01-03T00:00:00Z

    Henry Tapper, chief executive of new pensions consolidator AgeWage, analyses how open finance will transform the way consumers view and interact with their pensions.