General Insurance

Berkeley Alexander hails ‘Struggle Service’ success

Berkeley Alexander now has 13 individual insurers and in excess of 50 individual products...

Personal touch appoints senior GI manager

Personal Touch has appointed Victoria Jefferies to the position of senior GI manager. Jefferies has...

L&G extends GI deal with the Newcastle

Legal & General's general insurance business has secured a five-year extension to the existing...

The Source added to HomeLoan Partnership’s GI panel

Source Insurance has been appointed as a preferred supplier to the HomeLoan Partnership network...

Pink launches AR life desk

Pink Network has unveiled a Life Desk facility to help appointed representatives (ARs) place...

Connect Mortgage Club teams up with Source Insurance

Source Insurance has been appointed as a preferred supplier to Connect Mortgage Club for...

Title insurer acquired

Inter Hannover has acquired London and European, the provider of title insurance and legal...

Kevin Paterson to head up Source Insurance

Kevin Paterson will be joining Source Insurance as its managing director in early April....

Tesco Underwriting appoints chief underwriting officer

Darren McCauley has been appointed as the new chief underwriting officer at Tesco Underwriting...

Openwork unveils new GI panel proposition

Openwork has signed a long term contractual agreement with Paymentshield for general insurance. The...

Ageas sees off six-figure insurance fraud

Ageas has claimed defeat of a £100,000 insurance fraud case in Dorset. A judgment was...

Connect Mortgage Club offers landlord insurance module

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC), part of the Connect Group, is now providing its appointed...

L&G offers mid and high new worth insurance service

Legal & General has launched Enhanced home insurance, designed for those customers in the...

Kevin Paterson to leave Assurant Intermediary

Kevin Paterson, sales and marketing director, Assurant Intermediary has quit the firm. Paterson (pictured) is...

COMMENT

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...

Your clients have already asked AI

The FCA published research on 27 August showing that 56% of 18- to 40-year-olds who hold or are considering investments say they trust AI...

The technology that matters doesn’t make the decision

We have a tendency when talking about mortgage technology to start with what it can automate. How many documents can it process, how quickly can...

Latest news

Propertymark warns Scottish mansion tax could restrict housing market

Propertymark has warned plans for a Scottish “mansion tax” could make it harder for...

Berkeley calls for stamp duty overhaul to kick-start housing market

Berkeley Group has called on the Government to slash stamp duty for first-time buyers...

Stronger UK growth adds to interest rate uncertainty

Stronger-than-expected UK economic growth has added another complication to the outlook for interest rates...

Tipton expands Credit Plus range with second tier

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has added a second tier to its Credit Plus...

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