India's largest IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced on Tuesday that its client, the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) in the UK, has now signed up more than 100,000 employers to its auto-enrolment pension scheme. This also means that the company's insurance vertical will see an uptick in demand.
The roll-out of the auto-enrolment reforms began in October 2012 and are being introduced in stages up until 2018. NEST has seen employer numbers increase by over 100% since the beginning of 2016, as well as rapid growth in membership figures. Since roll-out began, more than three million members have been enrolled with NEST, with membership figures tripling from one million to three million since April 2014.