General Insurance

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...

Paymentshield hires proposition director

Paymentshield has appointed James Loder as proposition director. Loder (pictured) will oversee the development of...

Paradigm partners with Source Insurance

Paradigm Protect has announced a new relationship with online general insurance (GI) provider, Source Insurance. Source...

The Right DA Club unveils compliance packages

The Right DA Club, the directly authorised arm of The Right Mortgage Ltd, has...

L&G in GI partnership with the Co-op Bank

Legal & General is embarking on a new partnership with the Co-operative Bank to...

SimplyBiz Group reveals Advice Show line up

SimplyBiz Group is to host a mortgage, general insurance and protection focussed online broadcast of...

COMMENT

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom

This was always going to be a tricky interview. I’ve known Kevin Tunnicliffe, chief executive officer of Sort Group, which includes Sort Refer, for...

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

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Click2Check adds ID verification to adviser compliance platform

Click2Check has added an identity verification service to its digital compliance platform, aimed at...

Atom points to growing near-prime hurdle for first-time buyers

First-time buyers with thin credit files or minor historic credit issues are becoming a...

Landlords move to regain possession before Renters’ Rights Act changes

Landlords stepped up possession activity in March as the 1 May implementation of the...

The Marsden appoints chief customer officer

Marsden Building Society has appointed Julia Brook as chief customer officer. Brook (pictured) will be...

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