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Royal London partners with Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks

Royal London has been appointed by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks as its new partner...

iPipeline reveals TCP LifeSystems acquisition

iPipeline has announced the acquisition of TCP LifeSystems, a software solutions provider to life...

SMEs failing to insure key people

Just 26% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have insurance covering key people in...

Smart security homeowners get home insurance discount

Cocoon has announced a deal with PolicyCastle, the digital home insurance platform, giving people...

Gig economy workers need more protection options

So-called 'gig' economy workers juggle as many as two or more ‘gig’ jobs at...

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...

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Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

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Offa adds halal home finance products to Iress XPM and Trigold

Offa has partnered with Iress to make its halal home finance products available through...

Lenders expecting stability despite global uncertainty

Following the latest US tariff announcement, lenders are continuing to price and operate on...

Lloyds and Halifax cut mortgage rates

Lloyds and Halifax are reducing rates across homemover, first-time buyer, remortgage, product transfer and...

TMG Mortgage Network appoints head of operations

TMG Mortgage Network has appointed Ava Jones as head of operations as it continues...

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