General Insurance

GI a challenging and increasingly diverse market, say brokers

Increasing competition in the market is the biggest threat to the home insurance sector,...

Parents to to put kids on property ladder at university

New research from Direct Line for Business suggests that around 280,000 parents of teenagers...

Wesleyan appoints general insurance MD

Wesleyan, the financial services specialist for doctors, dentists, teachers and lawyers, has promoted Ahmed...

Ageas makes key partner hire

Ageas by appointed Gareth Robb as broker account executive. He is tasked with helping develop...

Paymentshield grows landlord panel

Towergate have joined RSA and Legal and General as the latest underwriter on Paymentshield's...

Safe & Secure launches Vegas competition

Safe & Secure has unveiled a competition to win an all-expense paid trip to...

Whiplash fraud hitting NHS hard

New research conducted for LV= Car Insurance shows the NHS is being put under...

New corporate brand for Mortgage Intelligence

Mortgage Intelligence has changed the look and feel of its corporate brand, as part...

One year’s free contents insurance from Swinton

Swinton Insurance is offering 12 months’ free standard contents cover to homeowners taking out...

22% AR growth for Stonebridge

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge Group has reported growth in its business during 2014....

Uinsure joins The Right Mortgage Network panel

General insurance provider Uinsure has joined The Right Mortgage and Protection Network’s GI panel...

The Source relaunches with Personal Touch GI panel

Source Insurance has relaunched its relationship with Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS). All Source products...

Aviva wants reform to deafness claims procedure

Aviva has claimed that 85% of claims for industrial deafness fail to demonstrate any...

Berkeley Alexander unveils free remote training

Berkeley Alexander has introduced a new remote training facility for mortgage brokers and IFAs....

COMMENT

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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