General Insurance

Paymentshield to hold general insurance roadshows

General insurance (GI) provider Paymentshield is hosting a series of five regional events across...

Mortgage Intelligence and Uinsure extend partnership

Uinsure and Mortgage Intelligence have bolstered their partnership with the introduction of new products,...

Paymentshield launches new self-serve platform

Paymentshield has introduced a new self-serve platform, which will enable customers to service their...

Insurance professionals see restricted cover as greatest threat to trust

Restricted cover is the biggest threat to public trust in the insurance profession in...

Avantia appoints chief financial officer

Avantia, the 'virtual' insurer behind the Homeprotect brand, has expanded its team with the...

Paymentshield unveils home insurance platform enhancements

Paymentshield has made a number of upgrades to its Adviser Hub platform. The latest change,...

Economic climate makes GI sales more important

48% of advisers say that general insurance (GI) has become a more important source...

Smartr365 integrates with Uinsure for home insurance

End-to-end mortgage provider, Smartr365, has expanded its offering into home insurance through a partnership...

Paradigm Protect adds LV= General Insurance to panel

Paradigm Protect has added the LV= range of General Insurance (GI) products to its panel. Member...

Ceta unveils new notional home insurance product

Ceta Insurance has launched Prestige Notional, a new home insurance product exclusive to Ceta...

Co-op Insurance to offer later life options via L&G

Co-op Insurance has partnered with Legal & General to offer later life mortgage options...

Consumers think price is only home insurance differentiator

New YouGov research has found that almost half of UK consumers believe that price...

Assurant Intermediary launches Rent Guarantee & Legal Expenses product

Specialist general insurance provider, Assurant Intermediary, has introduced a landlord insurance product providing rent...

One-fifth of Brits find speaking to an adviser ‘overwhelming’

Speaking to a financial adviser is a greater cause of stress for UK consumers...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Latest news

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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