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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...

Zurich introduces life cover ‘selfie’ app

Zurich has launched FaceQuote, a 'selfie' app to urge more people to think about and...

Engage with ‘robo advice’, brokers told

Advisers have been urged to to embrace ‘robo advice’ in order to help retain...

“No excuses” not to sell GI

Paymentshield has unveiled a new campaign which targets those mortgage advisers who have previously...

L&G offers rehabilitation support service

Legal & General has introduced a rehabilitation support service for customers of its Income...

Royal London offers signature-free consent form

Royal London has introduced an electronic signature solution to accelerate the payment of claims. The...

Scottish Widows highlights value of financial protection

21% people in the UK say their household would not be financially secure for...

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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 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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