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Friends Life offers free fracture cover

Friends Life will now offer customers the option to benefit from free Fracture Cover...

Huge potential still from protection

Although the protection market is enjoying something of a purple patch at present –...

LV= launches relevant life cover business protection on LifeQuote

LV= has launched its new ‘Relevant Life Cover’ product on LifeQuote’s Business Protection area. Small...

Exeter Family Friendly launches adviser IP marketing tool

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a marketing toolkit to help advisers grow their sales...

IP better than STIP for advisers: Defaqto

Although growth in the number of Short Term Income Protection (STIP) policies available has...

Big data: big opportunity or big headache?

Did you know that 90% of the world’s stored data has been created just...

Ageas Protect makes major underwriting hire

John Downes is to join Ageas Protect in October. Downes (pictured) will be responsible...

Let Alliance added to Pink’s AR general insurance panel

Pink Network has added Let Alliance to its panel for general insurance products. ...

Phones 4u insurance intermediary slapped with multimillion pound fine

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Policy Administration Services Limited (PAS) £2,834,700 for...

Majority of CI policies now offer severity-based cover

Defaqto has revealed that nearly 60% of critical illness policies now offer severity-based cover....

Protection market buoyed by mortgage lending

LifeQuote has reported that sales of protection insurance have reached a nine-month high. The...

Ageas Protect in alliance with Winston’s Wish

Anyone with children who makes a call to claim, due to a death or...

The Source expands home insurance panel

The Source has made a new addition to its home insurance panel with AXA...

Mortgage insurance helping mutuals lend to FTBs

Genworth has claimed that building societies are continuing to outshine their larger banking rivals’...

COMMENT

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...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 20

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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OneDome named among Europe’s fastest-growing fintech firms

OneDome has been named one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe, the Middle...

Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

First-time buyers wait six years to buy as lifestyle priorities reshape purchasing decisions

First-time buyers are spending an average of six years saving for a deposit as...

Tipton cuts buy-to-let rates and brings back high income multiple mortgages

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has reduced rates across parts of its buy-to-let range...

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