Protection

Mortgage Advice Bureau adds Guardian to protection panel

Mortgage Advice Bureau has welcomed Guardian onto its protection panel. As a new addition to...

Stonebridge in new ASU partnership with Wessex Group

Stonebridge has launched a new Accident, Sickness, and Unemployment (ASU) partnership with independent insurance...

6% rise in LV= individual protection payouts

Mutual insurer LV= paid individual protection claims totalling £135m during 2023, up 6% since...

Nearly 4m workers unsure when to buy an insurance product

13% of working people in the UK – a total of 3,952,000 based on...

Royal London improves HNW underwriting

Royal London has introduced changes to its underwriting limits. The changes focus on improving the...

The Right Mortgage reveals lending and membership details for 2023

The Right Mortgage & Protection network has revealed that it completed £6 billion of total...

iPipeline reports record week for income protection applications

iPipeline experienced its highest week for new income protection applications in a decade for...

L&G reveals record retail protection claims payouts

Legal & General has revealed that it paid out an average of over £2.5...

Consumers outline expectations around critical illness cover upgrades

Recent research has found that two-thirds of consumers say that if a critical illness...

Majority of Guardian’s life insurance policies used beneficiary nomination

Guardian has published information about the take-up of its beneficiary nomination tool, Payout Planner,...

Legal & General makes executive team changes within retail division

Legal & General Retail, the savings, protection and retirement arm of L&G, has announced...

Legal & General Mortgage Club launches Referral Pro tool

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the launch of its new Referral Pro...

The Right Mortgage appoints new national account manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and The Right DA Club has announced the...

48% of 2023 Cirencester Friendly claims were from millennials

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.8% of claims in 2023. Over the past decade, the individual...

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GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

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...

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GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and...

Mortgage affordability improves to its best level in almost three years

New data from Stonebridge shows borrowers are now spending the smallest share of their...

Iress expands equity release functionality as advisers seek deeper data

Iress has upgraded its equity release service on The Exchange in response to rising...

Vida eases criteria to widen access to homeownership

Vida Homeloans has introduced two changes to its lending criteria aimed at increasing flexibility...

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