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AIG Life upgrades underwriting architecture

AIG Life Limited has unveiled a new Underwriting Rules Engine (URE) and enhanced intermediated...

Legal & General announces new protection MD

Legal & General has announced two senior appointments to its Retail Protection team. James Shattock...

Over 10m overestimating value of Statutory Sick Pay

32% of workers in the UK overestimate the value of Statutory Sick Pay, which...

Source Insurance adds Insurer Hosted Pricing to panel

Source Insurance has welcomed Insurer Hosted Pricing (IHP) to its home insurance panel. Source has...

Wiltshire Friendly joins Right Protection panel

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced the addition of Wiltshire Friendly to...

Stonebridge expansion behind new office move

Stonebridge has relocated its head office after over a decade, driven by growth of...

Two-thirds of UK workers using private healthcare

64% of workers reported using at least one form of private healthcare in 2023,...

Q&A: Jamie Page, The Exeter

BestAdvice fires the questions at Jamie Page, head of protection distribution at The Exeter. BestAdvice...

Source Insurance adds MGA Prestige Underwriting to panel

Source Insurance has welcomed Prestige Underwriting, specialist non-standard MGA, to its home insurance panel...

One-third of Gen Z employees have experienced mental health issues

'Gen Z' employees - those aged between 16-26 - report having experienced more mental...

The Exeter offers unlimited remote GP appointments

UK protection and health insurer The Exeter has announced a range of new enhancements...

Leek Building Society partners with Uinsure

Leek Building Society has announced its new partnership with Uinsure, designed to improve members’...

Smartr365 unveils improved protection offering

Mortgage platform Smartr365 has announced a range of features and changes designed to improve...

Significant minority of brokers have had more protection conversations

40% of mortgage advisers have reported that their firm has seen an increase in...

COMMENT

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

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...

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Leek BS launches five-year buy-to-let fixed rate

Leek Building Society has added a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage to its intermediary...

LendInvest unveils 10bps buy-to-let rate cuts

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products by...

Quantum Mortgages cuts rates and launches remortgage cashback

Quantum Mortgages has launched a cashback product for remortgages and reduced rates across its...

Paragon cuts buy-to-let rates by 20bps

Paragon Bank has reduced rates by 20 basis points (bps) across its buy-to-let mortgage...

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