Cover

Direct Life seeks new apprentices

Direct Life is looking to take on three new apprentices to start work in...

Life cover shortfall for paying off average mortgage balance

New research by SunLife suggests the 'protection gap' is caused by under-insurance as much...

Friends Life adds fracture cover to portal

Friends Life Individual Protection has launched its Fracture Cover addition for its life, critical...

New IP policy suite from LifeQuote

LifeQuote has launched a suite of short term income protection (IP) policies to support...

Royal London reveals income protection figures

Royal London has reported that there were 73 new claims paid in 2014, and...

FCA reveals GI delegated authority findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its thematic review of...

Cirencester Friendly appoints two new non-execs

Cirencester Friendly has appointed Mark Sedgley and Ian Maude as non-executive directors. Sedgley (pictured) has...

Sheds holding Brits’ treasures

Research from Policy Expert has revealed that Britons store some of their most valuable...

Strong results from PG Mutual

Income protection insurance firm PG Mutual has announced another year of record results for...

PPI update from the regulator

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued an update on PPI. In January, the FCA...

Revolution Touchpoint growth for Stonebridge

Stonebridge Group has reported an increase in financial promotion activity from users of its...

First Complete membership reaches 1,000

The number of appointed representatives in First Complete network has now passed the 1,000...

FCA: poor insurance claims experience for SMEs

A review of insurance claims handling for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by the Financial...

VitalityLife launches special offer discount

VitalityLife has launched a 5% discount for new Optimiser policies. The discount applies to new Life Cover...
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COMMENT

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

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...

Latest news

House prices

Price cuts signal more competitive market for brokers

House sellers have made the biggest June price reduction in 14 years as higher...
Cover

Royal London pays record £821m in protection claims 

Royal London paid a record £821m in protection claims during 2025, supporting more than...
Appointments

TAB promotes Bonner to chief risk officer

Specialist lender TAB has appointed Jack Bonner as chief risk officer as it continues...
Building Societies

Skipton BS lowers residential rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...

PROFILES