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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...

Openwork to host UK roadshows

Openwork is to hold a series of UK-wide roadshows aimed at mortgage, protection and general insurance...

Half a home’s value at risk from average care home stay

The typical person entering residential care will face total bills of between £50,000 and...

Women must look after their own protection needs

48% of working women in the UK don’t have any form of protection policy...

Scottish Widows’ protection cover now on LifeQuote

Scottish Widows has launched its flexible life insurance products, Scottish Widows Protect, on LifeQuote. Through...

Paymentshield unveils National Conversation Week

Paymentshield has claimed that over one-third of the general population would sooner deal with...

FCA publishes IDD implementation consultation paper

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the first of its two consultation papers...

L&G appoints group strategy and M&A director

Legal & General Group has announced the appointment of Paul Miller as group strategy...

FCA sets PPI complaint deadline

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set a deadline for making new payment protection insurance...

Paymentshield shakes up sales structure

Paymentshield is restructuring its intermediary sales team. It has assigned dedicated telephone business development managers (TBDMs) to each...

Personal Touch launches Business Development Suite

Personal Touch has unveiled a new system designed to help its members boost productivity...

COMMENT

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

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....

AI is changing banking but trust will define who succeeds

For the past three years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in financial services has been dominated by technology. Every week seems to bring another...

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,...

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Landlord refinancing returns to record levels as fixed-rate deals expire

Buy-to-let refinancing has returned to a record high as landlords respond to the expiry...

Colin Sanders and Sundeep Patel to develop bridging proposition for Paragon

Paragon Bank has appointed Colin Sanders and Sundeep Patel to develop a bridging finance...

Atom bank issues 36% of near-prime mortgage offers on same day

Atom bank delivered 36% of its near-prime mortgage offers on the day of application...

Cambridge BS backs regional drive to tackle housing inequality

Cambridge Building Society is supporting a programme intended to bring businesses, philanthropists and civic...

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