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Ageas Protect publishes its critical illness stats

Ageas Protect paid out 89.3% of critical illness (CI) and children’s CI protection claims...

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...
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Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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