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...

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

Leek BS launches five-year buy-to-let fixed rate

Leek Building Society has added a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage to its intermediary...

LendInvest unveils 10bps buy-to-let rate cuts

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products by...

Quantum Mortgages cuts rates and launches remortgage cashback

Quantum Mortgages has launched a cashback product for remortgages and reduced rates across its...

Paragon cuts buy-to-let rates by 20bps

Paragon Bank has reduced rates by 20 basis points (bps) across its buy-to-let mortgage...

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