Protection

PruProtect offer 30% extra

PruProtect has announced that customers taking out a Life and Serious Illness Cover plan...

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident outline G-Day plans

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have confirmed their process for dealing with gender neutral...

Clients don’t believe in income protection

60% of advisers believe income protection is difficult to sell because clients don’t think...

L&G and Nationwide continue protection arrangement

Legal & General and Nationwide Building Society have agreed to continue their distribution agreement...

Friends Life introduces microsite

Friends Life has launched a new microsite connecting advisers to information on the services...

Scottish Provident boosts CI offering

Scottish Provident has announced a series of what it calls ’product boosters’ across its...

Bright Grey boosts critical illness cover

Bright Grey has improved its critical illness cover for personal and business protection menu...

Group risk advisers look to auto-enrolment

72% of advisers dealing with group risk believe that auto-enrolment will present them with...

New business growth for Scot Prov & Bright Grey

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have reported a rise in new business of 45%...

Many small employers unaware of group income protection

A quarter of small firms have never heard of Group Income Protection (GIP) products...

Pink and Aviva seek to create protection experts

Pink and Aviva have jointly launched a Protection Academy. The two firms claims the...

Sesame Bankhall announces restricted advice providers

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has revealed the initial product providers for its new restricted...

Barclays highlights protection gap

60% of UK adults do not have life insurance, according to new research from...

PPI ‘Summit’ to be held today

A Which? survey of over 2,000 people has found that 25% of people looking...

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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...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Nationwide unveils affordability boost for remortgage customers

Nationwide Building Society has introduced enhanced affordability criteria for remortgage customers taking out a...

UTB funds £2.8m residential deal for Oast Investments

United Trust Bank’s structured property finance division has completed a £2.8m residential investment loan...

Why every mortgage client needs a will and how brokers can help protect homes from fraud

With Financial Awareness Day on 14 August Royal London is warning that too many...

VPN loopholes could let fraudsters slip through mortgage checks

The UK’s new Online Safety Act has triggered a boom in VPN usage that...