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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 &...

FCA outlines Ageing Population Project findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an Occasional Paper outlining the findings from...

FCA closes Police Mutual investigation

On 3 March 2016 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced investigations into six firms...

LV= restructure sees Perks become MD

LV has restructured its life business to bring its protection, retirement solutions and heritage...

LV= introduces pre-underwriting tool

LV= has announced the launch of its new pre-underwriting tool, in partnership with UnderwriteMe,...

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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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