General Insurance

FCA outlines enforcement investigation procedures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated the criteria and outlined the process it...

Summer Budget 2015 – millions hit by insurance premium tax

George Osborne announced a rise in Insurance Premium Tax during yesterday's Budget. This tax was...

IHT changes could cause rush to revalue homes

NFU Mutual has claimed that Gloucestershire, Dorset and Cheshire families may be leading the...

Not making a claim can still cost your clients

I recently read a piece in one of the national personal finance pages that...

The Source to run and work for charity

Source Insurance have put together a team from its workforce to run the Cardiff...

Stonebridge Group recruits The Mortgage Shop

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge Group has announced Northern Ireland's largest independent retail mortgage...

Paymentshield expands business development team

Paymentshield is adding 25 new positions across its business development team. The expansion is to...

Valuables being overlooked in London’s sheds

Over 1,500 London gardens, sheds and garages were burgled in 2014, according to a...

Front Events to hold networking race day

Front Events, the events company responsible for the Financial Services Expo (FSE), has announced...

FTBs ignorant about home insurance requirements

47% of first time buyers don’t budget for home insurance when stepping onto the...

Investment paying off at Berkeley Alexander

Berkeley Alexander has revealed that its results at the end of April show a 56%...

The trillion pound market

The boom in the buy-to-let industry shows no sign of bust. The latest snapshot of...

Paymentshield expands home insurance panel

Allianz has been added to Paymentshield's home insurance panel. Allianz operates in 70 countries...

FCA reveals GI delegated authority findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its thematic review of...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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