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Canada Life to close onshore individual protection

Canada Life has confirmed it is no longer accepting applications for onshore individual protection...

Reassured appoints chairman

Life insurance broker, Reassured, has appointed Matthew Donaldson as non-executive chairman. Donaldson will work...

OneFamily to acquire Beagle Street

OneFamily will be acquiring Beagle Street by the end of the year, in a...

Lack of mortgage protection putting homes at risk

Against the backdrop of the cost-of-living crisis already causing families to re-evaluate their financial...

Royal London expands beneficiary nomination to WOL plans

Royal London has expanded its signature-free beneficiary nomination, an alternative to setting up a...

LifeSearch appoints chief data officer

Life insurance broker, LifeSearch, has appointed Sam Stafford in the newly created role of...

iPipeline launches automated life update process

iPipeline has launched a life update process in a move designed to improve transparency. The digital...

LifeQuote announces major rebrand

Protection specialist LifeQuote has revealed a new brand identity, designed to better represent its...

The Right Mortgage launches new Trust Hub

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has launched a new Trust Hub following on...

Royal London reveals record claims payouts for 2021

Royal London paid 99.5% of all protection claims last year, totalling a record of...

L&G pays out record in protection claims

Legal & General has revealed that it paid out a record 46 personal protection...

HSBC Life partners with TRM Network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has embarked upon a new partnership with HSBC...

Royal London widens Underwrite Later coverage

Royal London is expanding its Underwrite Later approach to a wider range of products. ...

2021 a record year for LV= individual protection payments

LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling over £119 million during 2021. The insurer supported...

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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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