Protection

Sesame Bankhall Group hosts Mortgage Extra Live events

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) is embarking upon its latest series of UK-wide mortgage seminars...

Ill health hitting older workers

Older workers are most likely to experiencing health problems as a result of work-related...

SBG adds group risk products to restricted advice proposition

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) is bolstering its restricted advice proposition for advisers and their...

12m Britons without a financial back-up plan

60% of the adult population say they do not have any financial protection in...

L&G adopts Vizolution screen sharing technology

L&G is now using Vizolution’s vScreen screen sharing solution as an integral element in...

Scottish Provident adds critical illness adviser microsite

Scottish Provident has introduced a new website for advisers with a  toolkit for use...

Zurich pays out 94% of CI claims

Zurich increased the percentage of critical illness claims paid out in the first half...

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident seek to speed up life claims process

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have introduced a fast-track system to reduce the...

Aegon improves protection proposition

Aegon UK has made a number of key changes to the underwriting requirements for...

Friends Life offers free fracture cover

Friends Life will now offer customers the option to benefit from free Fracture Cover...

Huge potential still from protection

Although the protection market is enjoying something of a purple patch at present –...

LV= launches relevant life cover business protection on LifeQuote

LV= has launched its new ‘Relevant Life Cover’ product on LifeQuote’s Business Protection area. Small...

Exeter Family Friendly launches adviser IP marketing tool

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a marketing toolkit to help advisers grow their sales...

IP better than STIP for advisers: Defaqto

Although growth in the number of Short Term Income Protection (STIP) policies available has...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Latest news

Newcastle for Intermediaries removes age cap on standard repayment mortgages

Newcastle for Intermediaries has abolished the maximum age limit for the repayment of standard...

Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...