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Personal Touch launches Business Development Suite

Personal Touch has unveiled a new system designed to help its members boost productivity...

More Than Landlord Insurance offer renewal guarantee

More Than Landlord Insurance has issued a guarantee that landlords will pay the same...

Paymentshield offers mortgage broker introducer facility

Paymentshield has unveiled an introducer scheme for mortgage advisers. The initiative aims to offer advisers the means...

The Source joins up with Adviser Portals

Source Insurance has partnered with specialist broker website provider, AdviserPortals, to create a joint...

Home insurance costs set to rise

Insurance market research firm Consumer Intelligence has stated that insurance premium tax rises are...

GI firm to provide £12.5m redress

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed a redress arrangement with Express Gifts Ltd,...

Homeowners believe renovations key to profit

Research from Co-op Insurance has found that 91% of homeowners think their house value has...

L&G reveals business quality award winners

Legal & General has this afternoon announced the winners of its sixth annual Business Quality Awards...

LV= Broker added to UNA partner panel

LV= Broker has joined the partner panel of UNA. UNA is owned by 13 of...

Uinsure maintains Defaqto 5-Star rating

General insurance provider Uinsure has been awarded a Defaqto 5-Star rating for the fourth...

Paymentshield CEO to leave

Steve Wood, who joined Paymentshield as CEO in March 2015, is to leave the business. He...

The Source implements FCA renewal measures

On 1 April 2017, new rules from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aimed at...

Paymentshield appoints Modus to panel

Paymentshield has added Modus to its landlord’s insurance panel. It says the appointment of Modus comes...

FCA reveals GI value pilot data

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the first set of data in its general...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

Affordability pressures deepen in Wales and North East as rental divergence widens

Regional divergence within the UK’s private rented sector has become more pronounced, with new...

Santander lowers mortgage pricing and unveils new large loan options

Santander is set to cut its residential fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.14...

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