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Addressing the first-time buyer protection gap

As an adviser, when you see a first-time buyer client, what are their main...

Nationwide to pay up to £2m in new PPI refunds

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued Nationwide with legal directions after it...

SME Group Life offering enhanced by MetLife

MetLife has improved its Group Life proposition to focus on small-to-medium enterprise SME employees'...

PPI largely behind increase in financial services complaints

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed an increase in complaints from 3.91m in...

Royal London improves income protection for NHS professionals

Royal London has made changes to its income protection proposition for NHS medical professionals. Three...

Uinsure partners with OpenMoney

Uinsure has announced its latest partnership with financial advice platform OpenMoney. The agreement will see...

New Royal London life policy covers severe mental health conditions

Royal London has launched a pilot offering life insurance to individuals with severe mental...

Right Mortgage & Protection Network opens registration for its largest roadshow

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network is to hold its main roadshow event for...

FCA unveils general insurance pricing remedies

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the interim report of its market study into the...

Paradigm Protect expands provider panel

Directly authorised protection proposition Paradigm Protect has announced the add-on of protection insurance specialist, APRIL...

Paymentshield improves API integration with Adviser Hub

Paymentshield has developed a number of APIs as it improves its Adviser Hub. The APIs...

Gender care gap affecting working women

New research from AIG Life shows a gender care gap is costing women at...

Paradigm’s CPD & Sales Academy marks first anniversary

Paradigm Mortgage Services is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its CPD & Sales Academy,...

Fosters Financial joins JLM Mortgage Services

JLM Mortgage Services has revealed that East Anglian advisory firm, Fosters Financial, has joined...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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