General Insurance

The Source makes further rate cuts

Source Insurance has once again reduced premiums for household and landlord property insurance. It made...

£8m FCA fine for Stonebridge

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Stonebridge International Insurance £8,373,600 in relation to...

SMEs ignorant of insurance needs

The good news is that the number of SMEs in the UK is at...

The Family BS to use Genworth’s mortgage insurance

Genworth has announced a new relationship with the Family Building Society, part of National...

Unmarried families less likely to have life cover

Only 23% of unmarried couples who jointly own or plan to jointly own a...

TMW partners with Rentguard Insurance

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has joined forces with Rentguard Insurance to offer all new...

LV= to pilot Vizolution’s screen-sharing solution

LV= is to pilot the use of Vizolution's vScreen to deliver an augmented call...

Berkeley Alexander offers between-exchange-and-completion cover

General Insurance provider Berkeley Alexander has made changes to its online quote and buy...

HUM takes new approach with PI

Hoyl Underwriting Management (HUM), part of the Hoyl Group, has launched a new facility...

FCA find GI comparison sites fall short

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that some price comparison websites operating in...

Zurich makes key sales appointment

Zurich has appointed Alan Ferguson to head up its sales team in Scotland and...

Joint purchasers foregoing life cover

77% of planned property purchases in the next two years will be made jointly,...

ABI proposes transparency initiative

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has written to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

L&G joins Source home insurance panel

Source Insurance has announced the introduction of Legal & General onto its home insurance...

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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