General Insurance

Select & Protect to unveil new landlords products next week

General insurance provider Select & Protect will be showcasing its new insurance proposition for...

Lack of clarity in GI payment options

A review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that insurers and 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...

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What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Target Group posts record client satisfaction score

Target Group has reported its highest client satisfaction score to date, six months after...

Four-month fall in sales agreed signals weaker mortgage market

Mortgage lenders face a potentially weaker final quarter after property sales agreed fell by...

HSBC to raise residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is increasing mortgage rates across much of its residential and buy-to-let range...

Cumberland expands school money workshops into second year

The Cumberland Building Society is extending its financial education programme for primary school children...

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