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Gr8 move by insurer, lol

Columbus Direct, the travel insurance specialist, has re-vamped and updated its entire policy wording...

Paradigm Protect to hold Twitter debate

Paradigm Protect, the newly launched protection proposition for advisory firms, is to hold a...

Paradigm unveils protection portal

Paradigm Group has launched a new proposition, Paradigm Protect, designed to offer a comprehensive...

Exeter Family Friendly hikes premiums

Exeter Family Friendly is to increase premiums on its short-term income protection plan, Bills...

Ageas Protect enters new market

Ageas Protect has entered the relevant life insurance market, which builds on the launch...

Extent of neighbourhood disputes revealed

New research from Churchill Home Insurance has revealed that last year there were over...

£6.7m a day in wet weather payouts

The Associate of British Insurers (ABI) has estimated that claims due to the wet...

FCA wants GI add-ons market remedied

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a shake-up of the £1bn general insurance...

Aegon increases income protection payout rate

Aegon UK last year paid just over 93% of claims received, an increase of...

The importance of relationship management

House prices are booming again. Reports from Nationwide and Halifax show a surge in...

Exeter Family Friendly back on the road

Mutual healthcare and protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly has announced the continuation of its...

S&P increases LV=’s rating

Standard and Poor’s has increased Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Ltd (LVFS)’s rating from BBB+...

Ageas maintains BIBA relationship

Ageas is to continue to be a Principal Sponsor of BIBA’s national conference and...

The Source in top 100 companies list

The Source have been awarded a two-star grading, achieving 89th place in the Sunday...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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