Protection

LV= has paid out over £19m in Covid related claims so far

LV= has reported that show life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims caused...

Royal London improves critical illness payouts

Royal London has improved its critical illness cover (CIC) to help pay more protection...

Enduralife expands product portfolio

Protection distributor Enduralife is now offering buildings and contents insurance to existing customers. Current customers who...

Life cover with critical illness getting cheaper across the board

Monthly premiums for life insurance with critical illness cover are down across the board...

Royal London returns to a pre-pandemic underwriting approach

Royal London has removed all Covid-19 restrictions to its underwriting for cases up to...

Paradigm Protect adds HSBC Life to panel

Paradigm Protect has become the first DA distributor to add HSBC Life to its...

Protection income generation can be transformational

Given what is going on in the world right now, 2021 already feels like...

Iress integrates O&M Profiler into The Exchange

Iress has further integrated O&M Profiler into its The Exchange platform. The firm says its...

PMS and Sesame completions up 18%

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has reported that combined mortgage completions in 2021 through its...

Just Mortgages provides business protection advice training

Just Mortgages is training its advisers to offer business protection advice. A dozen advisers have...

AIG offers protection cost cuts for six months

AIG Life has outlined changes that allow customers struggling with the cost of living...

Royal London to further roll out new underwriting approach

Royal London has stated that 94% of all life cover on its Business Menu...

Are NHS waiting times a new consideration for advisers?

The widespread disruption brought to NHS services by the Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant...

Life broker appoints chief people officer

Life insurance broker, Reassured, has appointed Mareena Flint as its new chief people officer...

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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...