Royal London has paid an income protection claim to a customer who became unable to work while their application was still being underwritten and before their first premium had been collected.
The customer received £1,500 through the insurer's fracture...
Guardian paid almost £31.7 million in life, terminal illness and critical illness claims during 2025, an increase of 48% on the previous year.
The protection...
Novello Chartered Surveyors has joined the Open Property Data Association as the surveying firm prepares to launch an AI-powered platform designed to turn property...
Virgin Money is increasing selected residential and buy-to-let rates from 16 September while withdrawing a range of 65% LTV products and introducing new 60%...
Clydesdale will increase selected residential product transfer fixed rates from Wednesday 16 September.
The lender said two-year and five-year fixed rate products in its core...
The FCA has banned a former law firm manager from working in financial services after he was found to have dishonestly caused or allowed more than £28m of client money to be taken without permission.
The regulator banned Nurul...
National Friendly has moved further into the protection market with the launch of Friendly Life Cover, a term assurance product available to advisers directly and through Iress' The Exchange.
The friendly society said the launch broadens its existing protection...
Nationwide has appointed Richard Walker as head of intermediary sales and new build, bringing in the former Virgin Money executive to lead its broker-facing sales teams and new-build activity.
Walker (pictured) will report to Damian Thompson, Nationwide's director of...
Borrowers with non-standard incomes, unusual properties or international circumstances should not automatically be treated as difficult to place, according to Saffron for Intermediaries.
The lender said changes in the way people work, invest and structure their finances mean mortgage...
Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...
The number of first-time buyer mortgages advanced at 4.5 times income or more rose by two thirds in 2025, with particularly sharp growth in lending above 5.5 times income, FCA figures show.
Data obtained from the Financial Conduct Authority through a Freedom of Information request...
There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...
The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI tools, ahead of television, the press and social media influencers, the last of those on 29%.
Four in five of the...
Mortgage Advice Bureau has cut its full-year profit expectations by £5.4m as the anticipated recovery in the housing market failed to materialise and delays to new lead flows hit its Fluent business.
In a trading update to the City this morning the Group said it...
