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Paradigm Protect partners with Canada Life

Paradigm Protect has launched a new relationship with retirement, investment and protection provider, Canada...

Openwork offers impaired life cover from the Exeter

Openwork has unveiled an impaired life cover solution from the Exeter to its protection...

Protection promoted during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and to coincide with this, Scottish Widows is...

L&G paid out 98% of all life claims in 2017

Legal & General paid out a total of £636m across its life, critical illness,...

Cavendish Online appoints business development manager

Online discount life insurance and protection broker Cavendish Online has appointed Luke Barber as...

Scottish Widows Protect joins UnderwriteMe comparison service

Scottish Widows Protect decision to join the UnderwriteMe quote comparison service means intermediaries can...

Mothers lacking in financial protection

Scottish Widows has reported that 60% of women in the UK with dependent children...

New business boost for iPipeline

iPipeline has reported a 28% year-on-year increase in new business processing for the life market. This...

Exeter’s Impaired Lives proposition available to Paradigm Protect

Paradigm Protect now has access to the Exeter’s new Impaired Lives proposition. An impaired life...

Royal London partners with Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks

Royal London has been appointed by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks as its new partner...

Zurich introduces life cover ‘selfie’ app

Zurich has launched FaceQuote, a 'selfie' app to urge more people to think about and...

Scottish Widows highlights value of financial protection

21% people in the UK say their household would not be financially secure for...

Uninsured women ‘leaving families vulnerable’

Scottish Widows has claimed that a lack of financial protection among women is leaving...

General & Medical added to The Right PMI panel

The Right PMI & Healthcare, the specialist PMI division of The Right Mortgage &...

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The sourcing system effect in specialist lending

In specialist lending, the right fit for a client has never been as simple as picking the top rate from a list. In sectors like...

Why the Renters’ Rights Bill should be a wake-up call for advisers and landlords

The Renters’ Rights Bill is shaping up to be one of the most significant legislative changes to the private rented sector (PRS) in decades. Expected...

Living in a box. Am I living in a cardboard box?

More young people are living with their parents than ever before. The bank of Mum and Dad has evolved into the hotel of Mum and...

Accountants, brokers and the clash of expectations

There’s an old accountant’s joke about financial advisers: the difference between us is that advisers want to look richer than their clients, while accountants...

Rachel Geddes: Redefining what’s possible for brokers and borrowers

When Rachel Geddes picked up the phone after a job interview to ask her mum what a mortgage was, she didn’t realise she was...

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Market Financial Solutions removes loan cap and cuts rates across Bridge Fusion range

Market Financial Solutions has removed the maximum loan size on its Bridge Fusion products...

YBS Commercial Mortgages unveils new semi-commercial and buy-to-let products

YBS Commercial Mortgages has introduced a series of enhancements to its semi-commercial and buy-to-let...

UTB provides £5.2m bridge on £12.75m Home Counties estate

United Trust Bank has completed a £5.2m regulated bridging loan to refinance a newly...

Funding 365 cuts rates to 0.64%

Funding 365 has today revealed rate reductions across its Residential Bridge and Light Refurbishment...