General Insurance

PRIMIS adds Source Insurance to GI panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has partnered with Source Insurance. Members of the network now have access...

The Newcastle provides home insurance quote after ‘five easy questions’

The Newcastle Building Society has confirmed a new five-year household insurance partnership with Legal...

Paymentshield bolsters Marketing Toolkit

Paymentshield has introduced new resources onto its online Marketing Toolkit. The new content takes Paymentshield’s...

Assurant Intermediary and Safe&Secure increase business volumes

Assurant Intermediary has doubled its monthly business volumes with general insurance brokers Safe&Secure since...

Uinsure launches first phase of ‘Zero Questions Asked’ quotes

Uinsure has introduced the first phase of its ‘Zero Questions Asked’ general insurance (GI)...

Clients mustn’t forget to insure items they have ‘tucked away’

Garden sheds and garages are a great way to get some extra storage, particularly...

Not reading policies widespread among consumers

New research has reported that 39% admit to not reading the policy on their...

L&G to sell GI business to Allianz

Legal & General Group Plc has agreed to sell its general insurance business to...

Streamlining buy-to-let insurance

Once the go-to choice for canny investors, the shine has come off the buy-to-let...

Paymentshield appoints pair of regional sales managers

Paymentshield has recruited two new regional sales managers to its sales team. The general insurance (GI)...

Source Insurance gains Investor in Customers award

Source Insurance has achieved a silver award from customer experience specialists, Investor in Customers (IIC). This...

Paradigm reveals 2019 lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect, the mortgage services and protection propositions, have announced...

Paymentshield improves MI Dashboard

Paymentshield has introduced new features to Adviser Hub that helps advisers manage their general...

Legal & General appoints head of broker for GI

Legal & General has promoted Darren Prior to head of broker within its general...

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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