General Insurance

Simply Business partners with DAS Legal Expenses

Simply Business, a provider of SME and landlord insurance, has appointed DAS Legal Expenses...

Advisers ‘lose’ £48m in missed sales

Mortgage advisers "missed out" on £47.8 million of untapped earnings from failing to provide...

Paymentshield expands three-month payment holiday offer

Paymentshield has extended its three-month payment holiday offer to include new, as well as existing, home insurance customers.  The move is...

Kevin Paterson joins Ceta Insurance

Kevin Paterson has been appointed as director of sales and marketing at Ceta Insurance. Paterson...

Uinsure extends up-front commission scheme

Uinsure has announced the extension of its C-19 initiative. In April, Uinsure launched its support...

AMI pleased by insurer changes following FCA guidance

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has welcomed the changes insurers have made following...

Covid-19: FCA unveils measures to help insurance customers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed a series of temporary measures to help...

Uinsure connects with OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has connected with Uinsure to improve its general insurance (GI)...

MCI Club in GI partnership with Safe & Secure

The MCI Mortgage Club has added a general insurance (GI) referral option for its...

Uinsure adds Zurich to panel

Uinsure has added Zurich to its household and buy-to-let panels of UK insurers. Zurich joining...

Paymentshield provides CPD resource centre for GI

Paymentshield has launched its first CPD resource centre to provide business support to advisers...

ABI: Covid-19 payouts likely to top £1.2bn

Initial estimates from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) suggest that its members expect...

eKeeper partners with Paymentshield

Mortgage advisers using eKeeper’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system will now have access to...

Uinsure to pay two years commission up-front

Uinsure has launched dual initiatives focussed on remortgages and product transfers, offering two years' commission...

COMMENT

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

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...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

Your clients have already asked AI

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...

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Rents set to rise by up to 5% as supply falls

UK rental growth is accelerating again as higher mortgage rates keep would-be first-time buyers...

Buy-to-let company formations fall as landlord incorporation boom slows

The number of new buy-to-let companies being established has fallen this year as the...

Mortgage sector wellbeing improves but burnout risks persist

Mental wellbeing across the mortgage industry has improved over the past year, although long...

Cyber attacks on property businesses rise 17% as hackers target client data

Cyber attacks against UK property services businesses increased by 17% last year as agents...

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