Protection

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...

LV= offers income protection discount

LV= has introduced a temporary discount on income protection. The protection provider is offering a...

Universal application process for protection launched

Directlife has unveiled Quote+, a universal application process for protection insurance products. The protection...

The Source offers protection for home buyers

The Source has introduced a Home Buyers' Protection product. It covers clients’ upfront expenses if: The...

APFA calls for MoJ action on claims management firms

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the Ministry of Justice...

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Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement is sales. How many cases we complete, the value of...

Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

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Step One Finance selects Phoebus in major servicing transformation

Step One Finance has partnered with Phoebus Software in a significant technology upgrade aimed...

Inflation accelerates as non-food prices climb and new tax pressures loom

Shop price inflation picked up pace in September, rising to 1.4% from 0.9% in...

Mortgages, mutuality, members and making a difference

Anyone working in the mortgage market knows that a key area of our measurement...

Reeves: Social housing must play a major role in tackling crisis

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged that social housing will be central to Labour’s plans...