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Legal & General Insurance unveils new learning & development hub

Legal & General Insurance has launched its online learning and development hub to support...

LifeQuote launches comparison service with Quilter

SmartCompare, LifeQuote’s new product comparison service, is now available to Quilter advisers, linked to their...

LV= appoints GI partnership director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has announced the appointment of Simon Hird as its...

TMA Club issues last call for virtual ELEVATE conference

TMA Club is calling on advisers to register for its 2020 ELEVATE conference as...

Rebrand for friendly society

Shepherds Friendly has unveiled a new brand identity and website. The friendly society’s look...

Owl Financial reaps rewards from online face-to-face advice

Owl Financial, Openwork’s specialist protection advice business, has arranged over 47,000 policies since the...

Renters living in insurance blackhole

Paymentshield research has revealed that only one in three renters have contents insurance. The insurance...

Connect expands protection panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Umbrella Protect to its protection panel. Umbrella Protect will provide...

Cirencester Friendly digitises adviser registration

Cirencester Friendly has adopted iPipeline's AlphaTrust e-sign and document process automation solution. The Friendly Society’s previous...

Catering for renters and millennials will grow protection market

Advisers believe innovation leading to faster underwriting is the most important requirement in the...

Royal London protection move “a breakthrough moment”

Royal London has added a signature-free beneficiary nomination to its individual life cover and...

iPipeline updates underwriting base philosophy

iPipeline has introduced an update to its base underwriting philosophy within the SSG Digital...

The Exeter improves Real Life application process

The Exeter has made changes to the application process for its life insurance product,...

Scottish Widows to divest £440m over ESG standards

Scottish Widows is to divest at least £440 million from companies that have failed...

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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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