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Paradigm Protect offers protection helpdesk for members

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition, has introduced a new helpdesk specifically focused...

VitalityLife makes improvements to Serious Illness Cover

VitalityLife’s Serious Illness Cover offering has been improved, with new conditions added, existing definitions...

Scottish Widows hires protection director

Scottish Widows has appointed Gary Burchett to the role of protection director. He will have...

Just Mortgages reaches Openwork milestone

Just Mortgages has become the top firm in Openwork. In under two years of being...

Source Insurance makes senior appointment

Source Insurance has appointed Steve Jenkins to the role of head of commercial partnerships. After...

Openwork offers impaired life cover from the Exeter

Openwork has unveiled an impaired life cover solution from the Exeter to its protection...

Paul Kelly joins Uinsure from Paymentshield

Uinsure has announced the appointment of Paul Kelly to the new role of director...

Legal & General launches Critical Illness Extra

Legal & General has announced the launch of a new critical illness upgrade option,...

Mark Jones joins L&G as new product director

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Mark Jones as product director, UK...

H2 2017 sees 3.76m complaints about financial services firms

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported that complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI)...

Paymentshield improves landlord insurance offering

Paymentshield has made changes to its landlord insurance product and revealed it will now...

Financial professionals ‘should ditch the jargon’

Just 47% of adults are confident with their understanding of the terminology used to explain...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network launches Scottish arm

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has opened an office north of the border. The...

Protection promoted during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and to coincide with this, Scottish Widows is...

COMMENT

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

Buyers are already reacting to a Budget nobody has written

Andy Burnham ruled out changes to stamp duty on 27 July, a week into the job and days after reports that the government was...

The tech question is how, not if, we can use it

Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...

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Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct...

Fintech entrepreneur joins Swansea Building Society board

Swansea Building Society has appointed financial technology entrepreneur Martin Breach as a non-executive director. Breach...

Brilliant Solutions’ mortgage club claims record month

Brilliant Solutions has reported its strongest month on record despite signs of slowing momentum...

Nationwide trims fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.19 points

Nationwide is cutting fixed mortgage rates for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers...

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