Protection

Citizens Advice wants ban on financial services cold calling

Financial services providers such as claims management companies, pension unlocking services and credit brokers...

Seven-year high for stress in financial services

Stress, depression and anxiety have risen to a seven year high in the financial...

Growing positivity among adviser community

61% of First Complete mortgage and protection advisers feel more positive about the mortgage...

Scottish Widows makes key intermediary appointment

Scottish Widows has appointed Esther Dijsktra as head of intermediary protection propositions. She lead the...

Pink conferences want stronger lender-adviser relationships

Pink is holding a series of business development conferences around the country this month...

TenetLime outlines adviser roadshow schedule

TenetLime has published details of an eight-strong schedule of mortgage, GI and protection roadshows...

Ageas Protect hires ops director

Ageas Protect has recruited Peter Thomas as its new operations director. He takes over from...

Lloyds Banking Group – turning the corner?

Lloyds Banking Group has reported a pre-tax profit of £2.04 billion for the first...

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...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

Mortgage rates surge and product choice shrinks as Iran conflict jolts market

New data from Moneyfacts shows the impact of the Iran conflict has been both...

Advisers told to tighten processes as rate volatility squeezes mortgage options

Advisers are being urged to sharpen their processes as lenders continue to withdraw products...

Conveyancer shortage threatens to slow homebuying process

Falling conveyancer numbers and rising transaction volumes are increasing pressure on the homebuying process,...

Sesame rolls out OneView adviser platform to bring core tools into one system

Sesame has launched a new web-based adviser platform, OneView, designed to bring core tools,...

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