Protection

Business protection gap estimated

Businesses in the UK currently have an apparent £1.35 trillion shortfall in business protection,...

ScotProv reveals latest cancer statistics

Bowel cancer was the second most claimed for form of cancer last year, according...

Tenet calls for protection trade body

There is a need for a dedicated protection trade body, Tenet has claimed. Reasons it...

LifeQuote now an option for Positive Solutions partners

Positive Solutions is now making LifeQuote available to all partners. Positive Solutions Partners...

Ageas Protect extends protection to the life of another

Ageas Protect is now allowing protection customers to insure the life of another person...

Protection gulf between the sexes widens

Women around the country are undervaluing the amount they are worth and failing to...

Holloway Friendly unveils new IT system

Holloway Friendly has upgraded its IT systems, with the aim of making quotations and...

Exeter Family Friendly paid 95% of IP claims

Income protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly has released its claims statistics for 2012. The mutual...

LV= and Tenet Group strengthen partnership

LV= has improved its partnership with the Tenet Group. LV= regional sales teams will now...

L&G beefs up critical illness proposition

Legal & General is improving its Defaqto 5 star Rated Critical Illness Cover (CIC). It...

Bright Grey offers birthday giveaway

Bright Grey is to introduce a special offer for customers to mark its 10th...

SBG hosts Mortgage Extra Live events

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) is this month hosting a series of mortgage seminars across...

L&G adds counselling to Group IP offering

Legal & General is now including free face-to-face counselling as part of its Group...

‘D2C’ seen as biggest challenge to protection market

42% of intermediaries see the rise of direct to consumer (D2C) propositions as the...

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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

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...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...