Protection

Women unaware of G-Day implications

Over 80% of women are completely unaware of the forthcoming introduction of the European...

Aviva added to First Complete income protection panel

First Complete has appointed Aviva to its income protection provider panel. The new Aviva...

Nationwide simplifies process for PPI complaints

Nationwide Building Society has moved to help customers make Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) complaints...

Legal & General in new partnership with First Trust Bank

Legal & General and First Trust Bank has agreed a 'long term' joint distribution...

Canada Life Group Insurance expands protection offering

Canada Life Group Insurance has introduced an additional service from Best Doctors as part...

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%...

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The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

The 12 Days of Christmas: Staying front of mind when clients go quiet

December has long been a quiet month for mortgage advisers. By mid-November, many client conversations slow or pause entirely, often with the familiar refrain:...

Why UPRNs and data standards are central to the next generation NLIS

In October 2025, through the Fourth Round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF), Government’s Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) has awarded Land Data a grant...

AGENT VIEW: I know I’m not a mathematician but to me 6.5 x is the new 3.5 x

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, as they say, and in an era of creeping inflation, job insecurity and the menacing spectre of...

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Kennek joins BDLA as trade body expands technology partnerships

Technology firm kennek has joined the Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) as an...

Clients seek reassurance amid Budget uncertainty

Consumers are placing growing value on financial advice as speculation ahead of the Budget...

Rise in weight loss treatment leads to new underwriting questions

UnderwriteMe has enhanced the question set on its Protection Platform to ensure the use...

Millions of UK adults at risk of financial hardship

Millions of UK adults are at risk of financial hardship in the event of...

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