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AIG Life expands Smart Health umbrella

AIG Life has improved its wellbeing services to give employees and their families even...

Financial costs of childhood cancer calculated

New research sponsored by Guardian and conducted by cancer charity, Young Lives vs Cancer,...

Legal & General Group Protection updates critical illness definitions

Legal & General Group Protection has updated its Group critical illness cover (CIC) definitions...

Q&A: Amanda Wilson, The Right Mortgage & Protection Network

BestAdvice fires the questions at Amanda Wilson, director of The Right Mortgage & Protection...

The Exeter partners with UnderwriteMe with new claims assessment engine

The Exeter has announced the launch of a new system to assess claims. The...

Access FS adds CeMAP courses to academy proposition

Access Financial Services has announced the completion of its new academy proposition with the...

Cirencester Friendly announces new chair and board member

Cirencester Friendly has announced that Vicky Churcher has been appointed as a new non-executive...

The Exeter appoints NED pair to board

The Exeter has announced the appointment of Suzanne Clark and Kelvin Malayapillay as non-executive...

The Right Mortgage launches new PMI Demands & Needs Statement

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and DA Club has announced details of its...

Consumer Duty to drive growth in protection recommendations

According to new adviser research conducted by Guardian about the impact of Consumer Duty...

MorganAsh adds protection triage service to MARS tool

MorganAsh has added a new triage service to its MARS vulnerability software, to help...

360 Lifecycle reports £10.5bn in lending on platform for Q2

360 Dotnet has revealed that its platform, 360 Lifecycle, achieved various milestones in the...

Berkeley Alexander introduces PI panel

General insurance provider Berkeley Alexander has launched a new Professional Indemnity (PI) panel of...

Acre reports 400% rise in broker adoption and mortgage volumes

Acre has reported a significant increase in mortgage volume on the platform in the...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...