Sirius has teamed up with Polaris to launch an integration facility between Sirius' back office and imarket.

Sirius claims that I-Market - the trading infrastructure formerly known as Polaris E-Market, has received the backing of several key players.

October has been set as the target date for the first phase of imarket to be rolled-out.

Polaris managing director Martin McLachlan said: "Sirius with its Stargate commercial initiative, pioneered full end-to-end electronic connectivity, between brokers' and insurers' extranet/quotation systems."

Sirius chief executive Mike Dodd said: "Sirius is committed to this important industry initiative. imarket will make access to multiple insurer extranets a reality for all brokers and Stargate commercial connectivity both complements and expands this service."