General Insurance

Your Help to Buy responsibilities

The government’s Help to Buy scheme hit the headlines again earlier this month following...

Headline price competition not without issues

The Consumer Panel's Working Group Chair Mike Dailly has set out some of the...

LV= now on Quote & Buy

Berkeley Alexander has revealed that LV= Insurance is the latest addition to the panel...

The Source appoints BDM

Source Insurance are pleased to announce the addition of has added Don Allan to...

Paymentshield offers ‘Premium Flex’

Insurance provider Paymentshield is launching a new online facility called Premium Flex. It says the...

The Source introduces SourceLet

The Source has launched a sister business aimed at capitalising on the growth in...

Home extenders falling foul of insurance policies

In a bid to avoid the hassle and cost of moving, 90% of homeowners...

New landlords insurance product for The Source

The Source has added Landlord’s Choice to its buy-to-let insurance panel. It said the move...

Home insurance costs falling

The overall cost of home insurance continues to fall year-on-year, according to analysis of...

LV= joins The Source’s home insurance panel

Source Insurance has announced the addition of LV= to its home insurance panel. LV= joins...

Duncan Bannatyne to open FSE

TV 'dragon' Duncan Bannatyne will open the Financial Services Expo (FSE) on 1 October...

Accidental landlords lacking cover

Around one in four residential landlords in the UK have the wrong or no...

New faces at Paymentshield

Paymentshield has recruited six new business development managers (BDMs) following two new deals with...

First Complete expands GI panel

First Complete has appointed Smith Greenfield, a specialist provider of general insurance for high...

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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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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...

Improving mortgage choice and lower rates ease affordability pressures for homebuyers

Homebuyers entering the market this Christmas are benefiting from improved mortgage choice and lower...

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