General Insurance

Uinsure unveils #QualityMattersMost campaign

Uinsure has launched a campaign to promote greater quality in the general insurance sector. Following...

Modus joins Paymentshield panel

Paymentshield has expanded its home insurance panel with the addition of Modus. Modus was launched...

West Brom agrees administration deal with Hood Group

Hood Group has been appointed by the West Brom to provide third party administration...

Paymentshield maintains Defaqto 5-star rating

Paymentshield has secured a five-star rating from Defaqto for the sixth year running. Defaqto, the...

Uinsure maintains five star rating

General insurance provider Uinsure has been awarded a Defaqto 5-Star Rating for the fifth...

Another strong year for Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has reported a rise in business volumes in its core mortgage, life/protection and...

Insurance firm boss fined £470k

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Decision Notices in respect of One Call...

First Complete & Pink add mid/high net worth GI offering to panel

First Complete and Pink have revealed that Confidas, a provider of mid net worth...

Sesame adds Uinsure to GI panel

Sesame Network has expanded its general insurance (GI) offering for member firms with the...

Select & Protect offers ‘year one’ introducer commission deal

General insurance provider Select & Protect is offering mortgage brokers 25% year one commission...

Co-op Insurance apprenticeship scheme boosts growth strategy

Co-op Insurance has taken on 25 new apprentices, including students from the Co-op Academies...

Smart security homeowners get home insurance discount

Cocoon has announced a deal with PolicyCastle, the digital home insurance platform, giving people...

Insurance firm fined £4m for misleading customers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Bluefin Insurance Services £4,023,800 for having inadequate...

Nationwide unveils new ‘flexible’ home insurance product

The Nationwide Building Society has introduced a flexible home insurance product, designed to give...

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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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NatWest opens specialist new-build support line for brokers

NatWest has introduced a dedicated telephone service for mortgage brokers handling new-build cases, providing...

High-income-multiple lending to first-time buyers jumps 66%

The number of first-time buyer mortgages advanced at 4.5 times income or more rose...

Landlords increasingly favour local markets for property investment

Professional landlords are increasingly concentrating investment in their home regions as local market knowledge...

Shepherds Friendly joins The Right DA Club protection panel

The Right DA Club has added Shepherds Friendly to its protection panel, giving member...

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