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Diverse Mortgage and Protection adopts Mortgage Brain

Diverse Mortgage and Protection has selected Mortgage Brain as its preferred partner for the...

Lack of personal protection for millions of renters

5.8 million working private renters do not have a plan B in place to...

Towergate adds new market to its London specialty business

Towergate Underwriting has launched another London markets team within its Geo Specialty business. International contractors,...

LifeQuote unveils customisable D2C protection platform

LifeQuote has launched a new direct to consumer service for advisers with an upgraded...

Insurance firm fined £4m for misleading customers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Bluefin Insurance Services £4,023,800 for having inadequate...

Young people most affected by mental health problems

A new Aviva report into adult wellbeing has found that young people in the UK...

Nationwide unveils new ‘flexible’ home insurance product

The Nationwide Building Society has introduced a flexible home insurance product, designed to give...

Group risk benefits “shouldn’t exacerbate gender pay differences”

Group Risk Development (GRiD), the industry body for the group risk protection sector, is...

Canopius unveils homebuyer fees insurance

Canopius has launched a homebuyer fees insurance product designed to protect homebuyers against the...

L&G offers RedArc Nurse support services

Legal & General has added RedArc support services to all new intermediary-sold critical illness...

“Room for improvement” with GI sales

A new survey, which collected data from 162 mortgage advisers, has found that almost...

L&G improves critical illness proposition

Legal & General has partnered with RedArc to introduce six additional support services for its...

Home insurance firms “routinely overcharging” older people

Citizens Advice has claimed that home insurance companies are overcharging up to 13 million...

LV= to hold income roulette webinars this week

LV= is hosting a number of free, informative webinars for advisers looking at the...

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Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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Skipton to cut residential rates and revive three-year fixes

Skipton Building Society is cutting rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...

The Leek lowers mortgage rates across residential and specialist products

Leek Building Society is cutting mortgage rates across parts of its residential, shared ownership,...

Fleet Mortgages adds two-year tracker products to buy-to-let range

Fleet Mortgages has launched three new two-year tracker mortgages at 75% loan-to-value across its...

Norton Home Loans provides remortgage on PRC home in Southampton

Norton Home Loans has completed a £218,000 remortgage for joint applicants in Southampton, allowing...

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