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Personal Touch Financial Services brand to go

PRIMIS and Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS) have announced they are joining forces under...

Sesame makes business development director appointment

Sesame Network has appointed David Jennings to the newly created role of business development...

Source Insurance cuts quote time

Source Insurance has launched a new question set to help brokers speed up their...

TMA Club unveils new Quote and Apply Engine

TMA Club has announced the launch of its general insurance (GI) Quote and Apply...

Paymentshield introduces Potential Earnings Calculator

Paymentshield has added a new Earnings Calculator to its Adviser Hub to show advisers...

Broker launches ‘second time’ protection review

CLS Money is to review every customer who did not take up protection advice at...

FCA launches consultation on GI value measures data

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation proposing new rules requiring firms...

Stonebridge Group announces continued growth in 2018

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has reported another year of business volume...

Scottish Widows unveils new life and critical illness range

Scottish Widows has created a new life and critical illness product range designed to...

Legal & General launches intermediary competition

Legal & General has unveiled its ‘Hero in the Middle’ competition, which seeks to...

MetLife in protection partnership with iPipeline

MetLife has announced a strategic partnership with iPipeline to grow the distribution of its...

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of claims last year

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of income protection claims in 2018, an increase on last...

Early Warning System from L&G boosting protection claims

Legal & General paid out £19.5 million in 2018 as a direct result of...

VitalityLife unveils new mortgage plan

VitalityLife has launched a new Mortgage Plan, specifically designed for mortgage protection. Alongside this, VitalityLife...

COMMENT

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

Buyers are already reacting to a Budget nobody has written

Andy Burnham ruled out changes to stamp duty on 27 July, a week into the job and days after reports that the government was...

The tech question is how, not if, we can use it

Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...

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...

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Nationwide trims fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.19 points

Nationwide is cutting fixed mortgage rates for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers...

Walbrook launches mortgage adviser apprenticeship pathway

Walbrook Institute London has expanded its apprenticeship offering with a new Level 3 pathway...

Mortgage Advice Bureau combines new-build businesses under Meridian Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau has completed the integration of three specialist new-build mortgage businesses into...

UTB restores 90% LTV second charge lending and cuts rates

United Trust Bank has reintroduced residential second charge lending at up to 90% loan-to-value...

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