Protection

Defaqto launches new Star Ratings

Defaqto, the independent researcher of financial products, has launched new Life Assurance Star Ratings...

Simon Burgess to offer loans with free IP

In response to calls from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, for those within...

Paradigm reveals award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the first winners of its recently launched Lender and...

Exeter Family Friendly appoints chief actuary

Exeter Family Friendly has appointed David Cobley as its chief actuary in a newly...

PTFS offers LifeQuote service

Personal Touch Financial Services' adviser firms now have access to LifeQuote. LifeQuote comparing product features...

Survey highlights life protection gap

Only 41% of adults in the UK surveyed say they have life insurance. And...

Pink Mortgage Club to hold DA roadshows

Pink Mortgage Club is to stage four mortgage roadshows for directly authorised advisers around...

Paradigm heads to National Motorcycle Museum

Paradigm Mortgage Services will be taking its first post-Mortgage Market Review (MMR) roundtable event...

Exeter Family Friendly reveals claims data

Income protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly paid 92% of all claims presented in 2013. Highlights...

Aviva improves heart attack definition

Aviva has enhanced its heart attack definition on new critical illness policies. This means it...

MMR to provide protection sales boost

LifeQuote has predicted an increase in protection sales as a result of the Mortgage...

Universal Cover criteria extended

British Money, the firm behind the newly-launched protection policy Universal Cover, has extended its...

Fall in FCA complaints

Barclays Bank Plc has once again topped the table for complaints. The bank received...

LV= joins First Complete protection panel

LV= has become a full member of First Complete’s protection panel, bringing the number...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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