“Services like PensionBee, rather than going down the route of asking people to tell them where their pensions are located, will suddenly be able to access data that will help them fill in those gaps — but so will everybody else.”
Lots of organisations in the life and pensions space are moving fast to develop the infrastructure to connect to the government’s dashboard, “because they recognise that there is a threat to them from the outside, from the fintech community”, Stevens says.
But Gretel, shored up against the risk of being just like everybody else by catering to a wider audience than just those on the hunt for their pensions, will keep ticking over until — or if — the government’s dashboards joins the fray.
Ellesheva Kissin in a trainee journalist at FTAdviser
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