General Insurance

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...

Source helps brokers to take on comparison websites

Source Insurance has launched a new range of exclusive integration options designed to empower intermediaries to...

Paradigm awards lenders and providers

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the third-yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

Quality customer outcomes top broker concern

71% of brokers agreed that focusing on the quality of their customer outcomes was...

Hutchings promoted at Uinsure

General insurance provider Uinsure has promoted two team members. Mark Hutchings, previously national account manager...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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London exodus slows as leavers stay closer to the capital

The pandemic-era rush out of London is firmly in retreat with new figures showing...

Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...

Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

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