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Paymentshield introduces GI Academy to close the “guilty gap”

Paymentshield has launched its GI Academy in order to provide financial advisers with General...

Direct Life appoints chief commercial officer

Direct Life has announced the appointment of Iain Clark as chief commercial officer. He will...

The Exeter appoints head of strategic partnerships

Health and protection insurer, The Exeter, has announced the appointment of Jamie Page as...

Want more GI sales? It’s all about the PITCH

Insurance is a saturated market. Consumers have many different options available to them. They...

The Exeter simplifies life cover

The Exeter has announced a simplification of its life insurance cover, with its Real...

Principality BS partners with protection specialist 

The Principality Building Society has partnered with protection specialists Vita to provide their clients...

Covid has not caused a spike in protection demand

The Covid-19 pandemic has not led into a rise of requests for protection, despite...

Uinsure partners with Open Money

Uinsure has launched a partnership with financial advice business, Open Money. The partnership will see...

Iress adds Features enhancement to income protection

Iress has introduced an improvement to its quote and apply software The Exchange, enabling...

Ceta Insurance hires new head of marketing

Ceta Insurance has appointed James Robathan as head of marketing. He is tasked with developing...

Aviva offers digital protection dashboard for advisers

Aviva has joined CIExpert's newly-launched Insight Zone. This offers a digital dashboard to streamline an adviser’s protection...

Metro Bank moves into SME insurance

Metro Bank has partnered with Churchill Expert, part of the Direct Line Group, to...

Cirencester Friendly launches IP health support benefits

Cirencester Friendly has launched YourHalo to its income protection members. YourHalo (Your Health and Lifestyle...

MoneySuperMarket partners with digital insurance distributor

MoneySuperMarket has partnered with digital insurance distributor ATEC Group to offer a non-standard home...

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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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The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

Mortgage brokers are increasingly reassessing their technology stacks, with sourcing systems emerging as the...

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has welcomed two new interns from Cardiff Business School as...

West Brom cuts shared ownership mortgage rates

West Brom Building Society has reduced selected shared ownership mortgage rates by up to...

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