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L&G to sell GI business to Allianz

Legal & General Group Plc has agreed to sell its general insurance business to...

Don’t widen the protection gap

There’s always a considerable amount of talk in the adviser market about product diversification,...

People expect to be fit for work for longer

UK workers expect to be physically capable of doing their jobs until past their...

PRIMIS begins registration for summer protection workshops

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has opened registration for its June series of summer protection workshops. The...

L&G revamps income protection offering

Legal & General has made a number of updates to its income protection (IP)...

PRIMIS adopts SolutionBuilder for its protection proposition

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has adopted iPipeline's protection sourcing solution, SolutionBuilder, across its entire network. SolutionBuilder...

Sesame and PMS launch campaign to improve protection conversations

Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club have launched its 2019 Rewire Routines campaign to...

Legal & General paid £332.7m in life claims in 2018

Legal & General has published data showing how much it paid out on individual...

Streamlining buy-to-let insurance

Once the go-to choice for canny investors, the shine has come off the buy-to-let...

Paymentshield appoints pair of regional sales managers

Paymentshield has recruited two new regional sales managers to its sales team. The general insurance (GI)...

Source Insurance gains Investor in Customers award

Source Insurance has achieved a silver award from customer experience specialists, Investor in Customers (IIC). This...

Paradigm reveals 2019 lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect, the mortgage services and protection propositions, have announced...

Paymentshield improves MI Dashboard

Paymentshield has introduced new features to Adviser Hub that helps advisers manage their general...

Cirencester Friendly expands executive team

Cirencester Friendly has made two appointments to support its growing presence in the income...

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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LendInvest appoints Darrell Walker to lead mortgage division

LendInvest has appointed Darrell Walker as managing director of mortgages as the specialist lender...

Equity release lending rises 4% as new customer numbers recover

Equity release lending rose to £597m in the second quarter of 2026 as new...

October Budget puts mortgage market on alert

Chancellor John Healey will deliver the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s premiership on Wednesday...

Leeds lending falls amid technology investment

Leeds Building Society completed £2bn of gross mortgage lending during the first half of...

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