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Pivotal Growth expands into business protection broking area with latest acquisition

Pivotal Growth has acquired Business Protection Solutions (UK) Limited (BPS), a Northern Ireland-based business...

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Happy New Year to everyone. I hope it was a restful break that included...

Paymentshield adds Ageas UK and Tradex to home insurance panel

Paymentshield has bolstered its home insurance panel with the addition of two insurers: Ageas...

Shepherds Friendly releases its first ever TV ad

Shepherds Friendly has launched its first ever TV advertisement, having also recently surpassed 150,000...

2025 growth expected in demand for health and protection insurance

The Exeter has published new findings from a nationwide survey of the UK’s insurance...

Cirencester Friendly attains Protection Distributors Group Claims Charter status

Cirencester Friendly has met the standards of the Protection Distributors' (PDG) Group Claims Charter. The...

Uinsure partners with Suffolk Building Society

Uinsure has announced a new partnership with Suffolk Building Society. Through the collaboration with the...

Shepherds Friendly appoints chair

Shepherds Friendly has announced the appointment of Mark Myers as its new chair. The society,...

British Friendly unveils new health and wellbeing app

British Friendly has launched a new health and wellbeing app called Symbio. The app, which...

iPipeline replatforms Beagle Street’s D2C protection proposition

IPipeline has completed the replatforming and launch of Beagle Street’s direct-to-consumer protection proposition onto...

BareRock joins Institute for Financial Wellbeing

BareRock, a Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) provider, has been approved as a Partner Member...

Cirencester Friendly joins ICMIF

Cirencester Friendly has joined the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF). This global organisation...

Generali UK partners with Winston’s Wish

Generali UK has partnered with UK childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish. The partnership will offer...

Uinsure appoints chief technology officer

Uinsure has promoted Ross Tyler’s to chief technology officer (CTO). Tyler (pictured) joined the business...

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You can’t just turn on a tap and expect housing supply to flow

Yawn and stretch, the government have appointed a new housing Czar in place of the thoroughly discredited Angie Rayner, former Deputy Prime Minister, who...

Alan Cleary: Taking the helm at Chetwood Bank

When Alan Cleary retired from the mortgage industry in 2021 he thought his days of running banks were behind him. After more than three decades...

The sourcing system effect in specialist lending

In specialist lending, the right fit for a client has never been as simple as picking the top rate from a list. In sectors like...

Why the Renters’ Rights Bill should be a wake-up call for advisers and landlords

The Renters’ Rights Bill is shaping up to be one of the most significant legislative changes to the private rented sector (PRS) in decades. Expected...

Living in a box. Am I living in a cardboard box?

More young people are living with their parents than ever before. The bank of Mum and Dad has evolved into the hotel of Mum and...

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Midlands and northern England dominate buy-to-let purchases as landlords seek value

Buy-to-let lending in the Midlands and the north of England accounted for nearly half...

United Trust Bank moves into student housing with new funding offer

United Trust Bank has broadened its living sector proposition with the launch of a...

Market Financial Solutions joins Sesame lender panel

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been added to Sesame’s panel of lenders, giving members...

Fleet Mortgages trims buy-to-let fixed rates at 75% LTV

Fleet Mortgages has reduced rates across its core two- and five-year fixed products at...