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Zurich sees record life cover applications

Insurer Zurich has reported record levels of customers applying for life assurance ahead of...

2013 predictions from MoneySupermarket.com

MoneySupermarket.com has revealed its personal finance predictions For 2013. Consumer Finances Clare Francis, site editor at...

Hastings hires marketing director

Insurance brokerage Hastings has appointed Nicola Charles as its new marketing director. Charles...

India-based PPI firm rapped over texts

Data Supplier, a firm based in Mumbai, has had three complaints against it upheld...

Disability impacting on 50-60 year olds

Over two out of five 50 to 60-year-olds who are out of work blame...

Scottish Provident provides help over gender pricing deadline

Scottish Provident is offering customers a window for last minute applications before the...

Homebuyers Structural Guarantee unveiled

Intermediaries can now provide buyers and sellers of homes over 10 years old with...

Friends Life revamps group critical illness offering

Friends Life has made improvements to its group critical illness proposition. Changes include enhanced...

Scottish Provident unveils new whole of life protection product

Scottish Provident has launched a new simplified whole of life product that solely offers...

Gender neutral pricing now at L&G

Legal & General has moved to gender neutral pricing. This means all individual protection products...

Openwork app now available for Android

Openwork has launched a new version of its protection app enabling advisers to obtain...

PruProtect appoints underwriting director

Darren Lee is joining PruProtect as director of underwriting and claims. He joins the protection...

LV= outlines gender directive policy

LV= has published details as to how it will deal with amendments to protection...

Brit homeowners unconcerned about winter

Only 48.7% of householders surveyed say they will be undertaking special checks, or doing...

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...

Latest news

UK risks two-tier energy transition without home investment

The UK risks creating a "two-tier" energy transition unless cleaner and smarter technologies are...

MSB solicitor recognised with Future Leader award at British LGBT Awards

MSB Solicitors is marking Pride Month after one of its solicitors was named Future...

The Yorkshire appoints two non-executive directors

Yorkshire Building Society has appointed Barry O’Dwyer and Philippa Brown as independent non-executive directors. The...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a broad selection of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

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