General Insurance

Mortgages toughest product to switch

Latest research suggests that mortgages are now the hardest financial product to switch. According to...

Uinsure wins GI partner award

General insurance firm Uinsure has been named GI Partner of the Year by SimplyBiz Group. Uinsure...

New insurance product for small landlords

General insurance provider Select & Protect has launched a new insurance product for landlords...

Paradigm announces lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the first 2015 quarterly winners of its lender and provider awards. The...

Beating the bull … subject to regulatory approval of course

The insurance industry is renowned for its use of jargon. Despite great efforts made...

Former insurance broker banned for forgery

The Upper Tribunal has directed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to prohibit former insurance...

Stonebridge sees year-on-year completion rise

Stonebridge Group has reported a year-on-year increase in mortgage completion cases for the first...

Why should the insurance industry care about the Consumer Rights Act?

The Consumer Rights Act merges all existing UK consumer protection laws and regulations and...

Cyber risk protection to boost SME insurance market

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) insurance market in the UK could exceed £8bn...

‘Identity doppelgängers’ cost £523 million

11 million UK adults are apparently registered at multiple addresses, with 15% of those...

Break out the paint brushes

Easter has traditionally been a favourite time for DIYing and I doubt that this...

New home insurance product from Post Office Money

Post Office Money has launched a new 5* home insurance product for the over...

The Source hires new BDM

Source Insurance has announced the further expansion of its field based sales team with...

Property ladder is getting shorter

Brits are owning fewer homes over their lifetime than a generation ago, according to...

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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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