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Mothers lacking in financial protection

Scottish Widows has reported that 60% of women in the UK with dependent children...

New business boost for iPipeline

iPipeline has reported a 28% year-on-year increase in new business processing for the life market. This...

Best small company award for Source Insurance

 Source Insurance has been declared the 26th best small company to work for in the UK.  It...

Two new roles at Paymentshield

Richard Alger has been appointed as head of broker proposition at Paymentshield. He will...

Uinsure unveils #QualityMattersMost campaign

Uinsure has launched a campaign to promote greater quality in the general insurance sector. Following...

PFS to hold Power Live event in the summer

The Personal Finance Society is extending its professional development programme with a series of...

L&G unveils Children’s Critical Illness Extra

Legal & General has launched Children’s Critical Illness Extra (CCIx), a paid for option,...

Modus joins Paymentshield panel

Paymentshield has expanded its home insurance panel with the addition of Modus. Modus was launched...

VitalityHealth unveils new GP access service

VitalityHealth has introduced a new Vitality GP service, meaning it is now offering and...

Seven new appointments at the Exeter

The Exeter has announced seven new appointments as part of a national expansion to...

Royal London makes protection leadership team appointments

Royal London has appointed Toby Bainbridge to the position of head of protection solutions. He...

Healthy behaviour should inform premium calculations

53% of consumers want insurers to take their healthy behaviour such as diet or...

Don’t be apathetic about protection

The ‘protection gap’ is often mentioned but, as time passes, there seems little progress...

Prudential Financial Planning to provide protection advice for the Cambridge

Prudential Financial Planning has started offering financial advice to members of the Cambridge Building...

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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