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Luma and Insurance Technologies Partner to Bring Annuities Solution

Luma Financial Technologies, Insurance Technologies | February 24, 2021

Luma Financial Technologies ("Luma"), a free, multi-issuer structured products and annuities platform, reported today that they have chosen Insurance Technologies, LLC, supplier of FireLight®, a multi-transporter start to finish insurance and retirement deals platform, as its most recent accomplice to bring their annuities solution, "Luma Annuities," to market.

The Luma platform, which is sponsored by three of the world's biggest banks, was worked to improve on the structured item venture measure. After solidly setting up itself as the worldwide fintech market leader in the structured products space, Luma is currently presenting an unequaled annuities solution that gives improved customer worth and helps consultants in battling their customers retirement saving difficulties, which are being driven by increasing market unpredictability and a low interest rate climate.

Luma Annuities is a turn-key annuity deals and lifecycle management solution that straightforwardly addresses the greatest difficulties confronting counselors selling annuities today. The solution works on all parts of getting the hang of, executing, arranging, and overseeing annuities for venture firms and guides, allowing them to unquestionably offer their customers a more extensive scope of income-generating products.

“Our mission has always been to simplify product complexities and give advisors smart solutions that they can believe in,” said Jay Charles, Director of Annuities at Luma Financial Technologies. “By partnering with Insurance Technologies and leveraging the FireLight platform’s embedded API capabilities, we bring a seamless order entry experience to financial professionals around the world. It is through our scale that we’re able to provide advisors with this unmatched experience, allowing them to offer their clients a wider-range of solutions to potentially put them on a path to a more secure retirement.”

The new solution offers best in class innovation modules that are worked by guides, for counselors. It was intended to offer top tier instructive substance just as highlight broad information across a merchant seller's whole annuity item rack so guides can look at rates, riders, and item includes. Additionally included are prescient investigation and transporter delineation includes that enable consultants to introduce the best, most secure item solutions to their customers. Independently, the solution additionally allows guides to track and screen the presentation of the products they sold through the Luma platform, just as products in their past book of business.

By inserting the Insurance Technologies FireLight solution inside the Luma platform, clients get a durable deals insight, allowing them to oversee products and rules in one incorporated area.

Since 1995, Insurance Technologies has been altering the insurance and financial services industry to enable financial experts and counsels to all the more likely serve their customers. Their solutions have for some time been executed inside industry-driving insurance transporters and wholesaler firms.

“We’re extremely excited to partner with a company that is adding tremendous value to the annuity category at a time when Americans need guaranteed income options more than ever,” said Doug Massey, EVP of Sales and Relationship Management, Insurance Technologies. “The ability for Luma to utilize the FireLight sales platform to access e-application and illustration data demonstrates the power of FireLight to allow carriers to build product rules once and re-use anywhere, seamlessly offering products in various user interfaces and effective solutions such as Luma Annuities. The transparency, efficiency, objectivity, and easy-to-manage tools that Luma provides financial professionals are simply powerful. We look forward to working with them to enhance the annuity investment experience provided to their customers.”

About Luma Financial Technologies
Luma Financial Technologies is the creator of Luma, a fully customizable, independent, buy-side platform that helps financial teams more efficiently learn, create, order and manage market-linked investments such as structured products, structured annuities and more. Launched in 2011, Luma is one of the largest and longest-tenured structured product platforms in the U.S. market and is used by broker/dealer firms, RIA offices and private banks to automate and optimize the full process cycle for offering and transacting in market-linked investments. This includes education and certification; creation and pricing of custom structures; order entry; and post-trade actions. Luma is multi-issuer, multi-wholesaler and multi-product, thus providing teams with an extensive breadth of market-linked investments to best meet clients’ specific portfolio needs.

About Insurance Technologies
Insurance Technologies provides innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industries. Offering a suite of integrated sales solutions, from pre-sale functions to quoting and illustrations through e-application and e-delivery to post-sale services, Insurance Technologies provides carriers and distributors the sales capabilities and tools to create automated and cohesive sales experiences for their advisors and clients across all lines of insurance, retirement and investment products. The unique architecture and flexibility of its solutions deliver front and back-office configurability and usability to support multiple business strategies, encourage cross-channel growth and evolve with regulatory changes.

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