General Insurance

Age is nothing but a number… or is it?

That’s what they say, and many people live by it and apply it to...

Uinsure appoints BDM

Uinsure has appointed former Paymentshield regional sales manager Helen Linnen as its business development...

Profits up at the Co-op group

The Co-op Group has reported an increase in underlying pre-tax profits to £81m from...

Ageas falls foul of ad watchdog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld two complaints made against Ageas Retail Ltd (trading as RIAS). A...

FTBs making common insurance mistakes

Research from The Co-operative Insurance has revealed the common insurance pitfalls first time buyers...

L&G unveils low cost home insurance product

Legal & General has launched Simply Home Insurance, a new lower cost alternative to...

The Source adds Landlord Plus to panel

Source Insurance has added an additional specialist landlord property insurance product onto its panel....

Major flood insurance scheme launches

An insurance scheme designed to help people who live in flood risk areas get...

Paradigm expands GI referral panel

Paradigm Protect has added a further commercial insurer, CDC, to its panel of general...

The Source streams staff songs to sell GI

The Source has launched a brand new addition to its new and improved platform released in December...

Firm highlights aggregator site ‘risks’

Paymentshield has published a white paper which provides a overview and analysis of the risks...

Uinsure reveals competition winner

General insurance provider Uinsure offered brokers the chance to win one year of free home...

Ex-Ageas boss joins Uinsure

The former UK chief executive of Ageas has joined GI provider Uinsure. Barry Smith...

New hires for SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has appointed Hannah Keane and Brian Wills as it develops its face-to-face contact...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Latest news

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

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