General Insurance

The Source joins PRIMIS GI panel

Online general insurance provider Source Insurance has been appointed to the general insurance panel...

Uinsure partners with L&C

General insurance (GI) provider Uinsure has announces a new partnership with mortgage broker L&C Mortgages. Simon...

Paymentshield to hold webinar on learning from Netflix

General insurance firm Paymentshield is hosting a webinar on the lessons that advisers can...

PRIMIS adds Uinsure to its GI panel

PRIMIS has added general insurance provider Uinsure to its GI panel. The Uinsure 5 Star...

Paymentshield unveils Defaqto Compare Tool

Paymentshield is offering access to the Defaqto Compare Tool, giving advisers the ability to...

Operating profit down at LV=

LV= has announces its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2018. Operating...

L&G promotes Simon Hird

Legal & General has made a number of senior promotions within its general insurance...

Direct Line Group celebrates two years of Idea Lab

Direct Line Group recently held an event at Bafta, which saw 86 Idea Lab...

New online hub unveiled by Paymentshield

Paymentshield has introduced its new Adviser Hub, which is designed to provide advisers with...

Uinsure unveils guide to help advisers “take on the aggregators”

General insurance provider Uinsure has launched its latest guide for advisers as part of...

FCA wants improvement in servicing those with pre-existing medical conditions

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published feedback on its Call for Input (CfI)...

iPipeline expands GI quoting capability with SolutionBuilder

iPipeline is further expanding quoting capability via protection sourcing system SolutionBuilder. At the beginning of...

Paymentshield extends new build quote validity period

Paymentshield has extended the validity period for home insurance quotes on new build properties...

Paymentshield unveils Fantasy Football

Paymentshield has launched a Fantasy Football competition for mortgage brokers, to run alongside the...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...