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Scottish Widows joins CIExpert’s insight zones

CIExpert has announced that Scottish Widows has become the ninth insurer to join its...

360 Dotnet and HLPartnership renew partnership

360 Dotnet, the platform used by over 6,000 advisers, has announced the renewal of...

Uinsure reveals “significant” investment from LDC to fund growth plans

Private equity investor, LDC, has invested in Uinsure to support its growth strategy. Founded in...

Q&A: Peter Hubbard, The Exeter 

BestAdvice fires the questions at Peter Hubbard, chair of The Exeter.  BestAdvice (BA): You’re a...

Right DA Club outlines 2024 webinar programme

The Right DA Club has published details of its online webinar programme for 2024. ...

Royal London makes key protection appointments

Royal London has appointed two senior roles in its protection business. Fiona Wynn has...

Towergate Health & Protection adds Solutions Healthcare to boost Scottish presence

Solutions Healthcare Ltd, a whole of market healthcare insurance broker, serving commercial clients and...

Right Mortgage appoints protection development manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and DA Club has announced the appointment of...

HSBC Life (UK) makes positive mental illness underwriting change

HSBC Life (UK) has introduced new digital rules for mental illness disclosures made during...

Legal & General Retail claims CMO report “signals a new era of workplace wellbeing”

Legal & General Retail has announced the publication of the inaugural edition in a...

Guardian introduces new Life Essentials protection product

Guardian’s new low-cost life cover, Life Essentials, is now available on Guardian’s quote and...

Sesame Bankhall Group partners with Holloway Friendly

Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG), have announced...

Paymentshield launches support network for ‘GI specialists’

General insurance (GI) provider Paymentshield has created a dedicated support network in response to...

Broker advice “still vital” for protection consumers

New research by the Exeter has found that a clear majority of UK workers...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Skipton loses former Connells chief’s discrimination case

Skipton Group Holdings and Connells have lost an employment tribunal case brought by former...

IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

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