Income protection

PMS partners with Cirencester Friendly

PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, has boosted its protection offering with...

Shepherds Friendly improves income protection claims stats

Shepherds Friendly has announced it paid 96.2% of Income Protection claims in 2022, an...

Guardian to launch Income Protection

Guardian is to be launching Income Protection in the coming weeks, to sit alongside...

British Friendly paid 90% of new IP claims in 2022

British Friendly has announced it paid 90% of new Income Protection claims in 2022...

National Friendly joins Paradigm Protect panel

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition, has added friendly society, National Friendly, to...

Cirencester Friendly paid more than 95% of 2022 claims

Individual income protection provider Cirencester Friendly paid 95.4% of claims in 2022. This represents...

£42bn facilitated through 360 Lifecycle in 2022

Adviser CRM platform, 360 Lifecycle, has revealed that it facilitated over £7 billion in...

British Friendly unveils fracture cover for income protection

British Friendly has announced the launch of its fracture cover, an optional benefit that can...

Shepherds Friendly selects Nuffield Health for rehabilitation support

Shepherds Friendly is extending its partnership with Nuffield Health, with the latter to now...

Royal London bolsters mental health underwriting

Royal London has unveiled a series of changes to its mental health underwriting philosophy....

Just Mortgages sounds protection warning

Just Mortgages has warned there is a risk of a shortfall in protection cover...

Foresters Financial achieves 99.99% claim pay-out rate

Foresters Financial, the mutual financial services organisation, has achieved a UK claim pay-out rate...

Paradigm Protect partners with Assured Futures

Paradigm Protect has announced a new partnership with Assured Futures, the specialist life and...

Paradigm Protect adds Cirencester Friendly to panel

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition, has added Cirencester Friendly’s range of Income...

COMMENT

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

Latest news

Fleet Mortgages adds two-year tracker products to buy-to-let range

Fleet Mortgages has launched three new two-year tracker mortgages at 75% loan-to-value across its...

Norton Home Loans provides remortgage on PRC home in Southampton

Norton Home Loans has completed a £218,000 remortgage for joint applicants in Southampton, allowing...

Scotland attracts rising interest from GCC property buyers

Scotland is becoming an increasingly popular destination for Gulf buyers looking at UK property,...

Vida broadens mortgage range with new higher LTV tier and lower rates

Vida has expanded its mortgage range with rate cuts of up to 0.72%, alongside...

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