General Insurance

New provider for Paymentshield’s rent protection product

Paymentshield has partnered with Arc Legal Assistance who will become the new provider for...

MAB introduces new GI partnership

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has joined up with Legal & General and Uinsure to...

Halifax introduces renters insurance with US fintech firm

Halifax has partnered with US fintech firm Trov to launch what is calling a...

Hilltop Finance moves into insurance with Cavere Intermediary 

Hilltop Finance, the Manchester based financial advice firm specialising in pensions and retirement planning,...

Majority of insurance policies don’t provide winter protection

New analysis by Defaqto reveals that of the 390 home contents insurance policies currently...

Paymentshield appoints new regional sales manager

Paymentshield has recruited a new regional sales manager for London and Kent. Simon Parish joins...

Costs of living with an ex revealed

Nine million Brits have had to continue living with an ex-partner following a breakup,...

LV= General Insurance appoints sales and marketing director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has appointed Jon Mansley to the newly created role...

Ageas creates new intermediary director roles

Ageas Insurance has created three new directors of distribution roles, in a move which...

Further growth at Stonebridge

Mortgage and insurance network has reported growth in appointed representative recruitment into the business. It has...

Uinsure partners with OpenMoney

Uinsure has announced its latest partnership with financial advice platform OpenMoney. The agreement will see...

FCA unveils general insurance pricing remedies

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the interim report of its market study into the...

Paymentshield improves API integration with Adviser Hub

Paymentshield has developed a number of APIs as it improves its Adviser Hub. The APIs...

Paradigm’s CPD & Sales Academy marks first anniversary

Paradigm Mortgage Services is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its CPD & Sales Academy,...

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...

Latest news

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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