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Tower Insurance Brokers secures growth funding to fuel next phase of expansion

Tower Insurance Brokers has secured multi-million pound growth funding from TDC as it looks...

Source Insurance diverts Christmas marketing spend to homelessness charity

Source Insurance has donated its entire Christmas marketing budget to The Huggard, a Cardiff-based...

Long-term illness affects almost four in 10 adults, insurer warns

Nearly four in 10 UK adults are living with at least one ongoing medical...

SM Advice offers free social media support for advisers lagging behind online

SM Advice has launched a three-month free social media management service for advice firms...

Octopus Legacy and Shepherds Friendly launch simplified life cover to close protection gap

Octopus Legacy, the estate planning provider, has joined with mutual society Shepherds Friendly to...

FCA confirms rule simplifications for insurers and signals wider reviews

The Financial Conduct Authority has finalised a series of reforms designed to simplify insurance...

Trust in private medical insurance rises as claims satisfaction hits new high

Trust in private medical insurance has rebounded after a temporary dip earlier this year,...

The Exeter adds Real Life to iPipeline’s Advanced Underwriting platform

The Exeter has added its Real Life product to iPipeline’s newly launched Advanced Underwriting...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with...

MIMHC launches programme to train over 100 Mental Health First Aiders

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) Foundation has announced its most ambitious programme...

Insurance-funded private health admissions hit record high

Insurance-funded private healthcare admissions reached a record level in the first half of 2025...

FCA proposes cut to late return fee as part of broader streamlining

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation on proposals to cut the...

Sikoia and Yavia partner to streamline adviser workflows and improve data accuracy

Sikoia, the automated customer verification provider, has formed a technology partnership with Yavia, the...

New Homes Mortgage Services buys Barron Financial Solutions to expand reach

New Homes Mortgage Services LLP has completed the acquisition of Barron Financial Solutions as...

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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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