Protection

Great start to 2014 for Berkeley Alexander

General insurance provider Berkeley Alexander says sales via its distribution partners are up by...

Aegon UK appoints protection director

Aegon UK has made changes to its protection business. Dougy Grant (pictured), previously retail strategy...

Aviva offers improved employee counselling services

Aviva has broadened its free Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for Group Income Protection clients. This...

Appointment news at Holloway Friendly

Holloway Friendly has announced the appointment of two new staff from Lutine Assurance. The protection...

Paradigm introduces monthly awards

Paradigm Mortgage Services has launched its new Lender and Provider of the Month Awards. They...

Canada Life opens up Early Intervention Service availability

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Early Intervention Service, first piloted in 2008,...

Exeter Family Friendly expands Protection Path tool

Specialist protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly has introduced a new suite of material for...

Provider award for Scottish Life

Scottish Life has been given the Provider of the Year 2013 award following a...

L&G offers group protection calculator

Legal & General has unveiled a new online group protection calculator. It provides "instant" quotations...

Exeter Family Friendly unveils income protection tool

Exeter Family Friendly has launched an online tool called the Financial Forecast Calculator to...

East Grinstead first stop for Paradigm round tables

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published details of the first of its 2014 round table...

New homeowner ASU product from Berkeley Alexander

Berkeley Alexander has expanded its range of Accident, Sickness and Unemployment (ASU) protection products...

Brits hit by unexpected expenses

Three quarters of Brits have been hit with an unexpected expense in the past...

Brits choose pets over protection

People are twice as likely to hold pet insurance (21%) than they are a...

COMMENT

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

Latest news

The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

Mortgage brokers are increasingly reassessing their technology stacks, with sourcing systems emerging as the...

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has welcomed two new interns from Cardiff Business School as...

West Brom cuts shared ownership mortgage rates

West Brom Building Society has reduced selected shared ownership mortgage rates by up to...

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