Cover

L&G protection payments up £64m

Legal & General paid out £606m to policyholders for critical illness, life, terminal illness and income...

Minority in the dark about bereavement or critical illness

One in five people don’t know where they would turn in the event of...

FCA publishes mission and business plan

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its Mission, which aims to give firms and...

White paper encourages advisers to talk GI

Paymentshield has published a white paper which reveals why mortgage advisers should be broaching...

Surge in self-employed workers

The number of self-employed workers in the UK has increased from 3.8 million to...

Military intermediary LifeQuote platform

Specialist armed forces intermediary, Insignia Underwriting, has launched a bespoke online protection portal for...

L&G upgrades OLPC

Legal & General has made upgrades to its intermediary case management system Online Protection Connect...

LifeQuote unveils new case tracking system

LifeQuote has launched a new case tracking system, offering real time updates on all cases.  Advisers...

Homeowners taking risks with unauthorised renovations

57% of UK homeowners say they’ve had extensive work done on their properties and...

Network to provide “game changing” new protection service

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has partnered with Synaptic Software and Covéa Life...

Over-50s facing financial services age discrimination

Over 50s insurer SunLife People has found that people aged 50 and over are...

Source powers SimplyBiz comparison sites

Source Insurance has worked with SimplyBiz Group’s website solution service, NextGen, to create a joint...

15% increase in Aegon UK life payments

Aegon UK paid out 98% of all life claims in 2016 to 663 families and...

Joining up people and technology

The end of the first quarter is a good time for people to re-assess...
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COMMENT

Homebuying reform

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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Conveyancing

Legal Services Board joins government AI growth initiative

The Legal Services Board is joining the government’s new AI Growth Lab, a scheme...
Technology

Cleerly adopts Acre CRM as conversion rates climb

Specialist mortgage broker Cleerly Mortgages has implemented Acre’s CRM platform after a review of...
Analysis

First-time buyers face rising stamp duty costs as more homes breach £300k

First-time buyers are increasingly being drawn into paying stamp duty as rising purchase prices...
Appointments

Word On The Street recruits mortgage operations manager

Specialist mortgage broker Word On The Street has appointed Samuel Bryce as mortgage operations...

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