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LV= broker improves ABC home cover

LV= Broker is improving its ABC Home buildings and contents product. Under its ABC contents product,...

Uinsure retains Defaqto 5 Star Rating

General insurance provider Uinsure has been awarded a Defaqto 5 Star Rating. It is the...

£15.5m in fines imposed by FCA over integrity failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined five individuals and two firms a total...

New landlords’ lost keys insurance deal unveiled

Keycare has launched a new intermediary-only, landlords’ insurance product for lost keys, to be...

Homeowners’ top DIY bodges revealed

An Aviva study of around 1,000 recent home-movers found that people spent on average...

Paymentshield aims to get advisers ‘GI fit’

Paymentshield has launched a new initiative, ‘GI Fit’, to help its network of advisers boost their...

Is Flood Re’s future already in doubt?

The record levels of rainfall this winter have brought the misery of flooding to...

Dulwich is UK burglary claims hotspot

The London postcode of SE21 is the UK’s burglary claims capital, according to MoneySuperMarket’s...

PTFS joins Fleet Mortgages panel

Fleet Mortgages has announced the addition of adviser network, Personal Touch Financial Services, to its...

Vizolution expands sales team

Vizolution has expanded its sales team with the appointment Michael Padmanathan, Alex Noble and Oli...

London and Country continues partnership with Winston’s Wish

Childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish has renewing its partnership for another year with mortgage...

Paradigm reveals lender and provider award winners

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

The Source expands sales team

Source Insurance has recruited a business development manager (BDM) to cover the West and South...

The Source expands panel

Source Insurance has added specialist managing general agent Modus to its panel. Modus...

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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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