Protection

FCA to study PPI complaint trends

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to gather evidence on current trends in Payment...

Zurich pays out £63m in critical illness claims

Zurich paid over 91% of its critical illness claims in 2014, benefitting 750 customers...

Royal London appoints non-executive director

Royal London has announced the appointment of Sally Bridgeland as a non-executive director. Bridgeland spent...

Aviva extends free new parent life cover

Aviva is offering a year of free life cover worth £15,000 to each parent...

Paradigm announces award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the yearly winners of its Lender and Provider Awards. ...

iPipeline partners with Openwork

Ipipeline has joined forces with Openwork to develop and improve its model for advisers...

Mortgageforce agrees deal with The Source

Derby-based brokerage Mortgageforce has signed an exclusive three-year deal with The Source to provide...

Paradigm launches three different event formats

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published its events timetable for the first five months of the...

Friends Life offers cancer-specific workplace benefit

Friends Life has unveiled what it is hailing as the first employer funded cancer-specific...

Exeter Family Friendly praises UnderwriteMe’s effectiveness

Exeter Family Friendly has seen immediate benefit after successfully integrating UnderwriteMe into its...

First Complete ‘kicks off’ its year

This week sees First Complete beginning its annual series of Kick Off meetings across...

Openwork hires distribution director

Openwork has appointed Dave Ewens to the position of distribution director. Ewens joins Openwork...

AIG completes Ageas Protect purchase

Ageas has completed the sale of its 100% shareholding in its UK Life Protection...

ABI updates critical illness best practice statement

The ABI has published an updated Statement of Best Practice to help people who...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

PROFILES