Drive Growth and Streamline Operations with CATALYST®
The Catalyst platform
We have distilled our combined expertise into a powerful, behind-the-scenes web-based platform that simplifies and strengthens your professional introducer relationships.
Catalyst enables financial planners and their firms to build integrated, commercially effective relationships and increase their overall financial services initial and recurring revenue.
It’s designed with compliance at its core, supporting your professional connections in navigating the complexities of regulation when making client introductions to you.
We understand the regulatory requirements involved in client referrals. That’s why Catalyst includes the tools needed to manage client introductions confidently and compliantly.
For financial planning firms, Catalyst streamlines and optimises relationships with professional connections. And for your connections, to offer their clients a much broader range of services from your firm. it makes it easier and provides them with a compliant process to offer their clients a much broader range of valuable financial services advice from your firm
Using Catalyst will help you unlock the regulatory barriers to successful collaboration with your professional connections.
How Catalyst Works
1. Professional connection
- Typically a Solicitor, Accountant or any other introducer to your firm.
2. Financial planning firm
- Your business will be receiving good quality client introductions
3. Financial planning firm and advisor Notified
- Online referral received by financial planning firm for the adviser to make contact with the introduced client
4. Client disclosure & consent letters
- When a client introduction is made by the professional connection, an automated pre-populated client consent letter is produced for the professional connection. (If required by your connection)
- This letter explains their relationship with the financial planning firm and provides a client consent for the referral to proceed.
5. Updated client case notes
- Both professional connection and financial planner can add client notes so that both parties are updated on their client’s progress immediately.
6. Management reporting on all introductions
- Catalyst can display all introductions made by the professional connections and the financial planning firm.
7. Compliance audit trail & records
- Compliant audit trail of all client consent letters, produced by Catalyst for the professional connection firm.
- When the initial client introduction is made.
- If there is a fee-sharing arrangement in place, Catalyst produces these too for the professional connection firm for their client to consent.
8. Document sharing
- Both professional connection and financial planner can share client documents/reports securely and store them in the client file.
9. Powerpoint presentations
- We will provide you with PowerPoint presentations and ongoing guidance to help you get your professional connections on board with Cataylst
System Benefits For Professional Connections
- Widen your client service proposition by offering complementary financial services via your chosen financial planners.
- Remove the regulatory risk and management downtime of in-house financial services, revenue and compliance.
- Provide a simple process to make client referrals to a selected financial planning firm or a key specialist financial planner.
- Automatically populate your client disclosure letters and communications to comply with your regulatory responsibilities.
- Provides a compliant audit trail of all your client consent letters produced by Catalyst.
- Access to real-time management information on all introduced clients.
- Access to the client’s updated notes from the financial planner involved from the point of referral.
- Full current and historic financial reporting.