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Inflation threatening over-50s’ life insurance policies

Rising inflation is putting pressure on over-50s life insurance customers to carry on paying...

Scottish Friendly partners with the Unisure Group

Scottish Friendly and the Unisure Group have announced a new partnership agreement. The agreement confirms...

Royal London extends online trusts to personal menu plans

Mutual insurer Royal London has made further improvements to its digital services by extending...

TMA Club partners with Howden for discounted PII

TMA Club has announced the launch of a new partnership with Howden, a specialist...

TRM network to hold regional roadshows in April

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has announced the launch of its Regional April...

Zurich joins CIExpert’s Insight Zone

CIExpert has announced that Zurich has become the latest insurer to join its Insight...

Shepherds Friendly improves income protection claims stats

Shepherds Friendly has announced it paid 96.2% of Income Protection claims in 2022, an...

SME cost pressure is leading concern for workplace advisers

55% of workplace protection advisers have cited cost pressures on SMEs as their top...

L&G updates protection offering

Legal & General Retail has updated its Protection proposition, improving its Critical Illness offering. The...

Guardian to launch Income Protection

Guardian is to be launching Income Protection in the coming weeks, to sit alongside...

Paymentshield improves its home insurance quote process

General insurance (GI) solutions provider Paymentshield has introduced a new, optimised home insurance quote...

British Friendly paid 90% of new IP claims in 2022

British Friendly has announced it paid 90% of new Income Protection claims in 2022...

AIG Life appoints MD of individual protection

UK life insurer AIG Life has announced that Nick Austin has been named managing...

Right Mortgage Network celebrates successful national training event

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network, alongside sister companies The Later Life Lending Network,...

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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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BuildLoan launches World Cup predictor for brokers

BuildLoan has launched a World Cup prediction competition for UK mortgage brokers, with cash...

FRP arranges £4.1m refinance for York student accommodation scheme

FRP Real Estate Advisory has arranged a £4.1m commercial term facility to refinance a...

Investor backs secondary retail prospects with Essex acquisition

An investor has highlighted the continuing appeal of well-located secondary retail assets after completing...

The Mortgage Works signals buy-to-let rate reductions

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates by up to 0.22 percentage points across selected...

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