Protection

Aviva offers digital protection dashboard for advisers

Aviva has joined CIExpert's newly-launched Insight Zone. This offers a digital dashboard to streamline an adviser’s protection...

Cirencester Friendly launches IP health support benefits

Cirencester Friendly has launched YourHalo to its income protection members. YourHalo (Your Health and Lifestyle...

VIBE Specialist Finance unveils regulated mortgage and protection offering

VIBE Specialist Finance has created a new regulated mortgage and protection division to add...

Shepherds Friendly boosts benefits to IP members

Shepherds Friendly has partnered with healthcare charity, Nuffield Health, to offer a range of...

Cirencester Friendly begins search for new CEO

Paul Hudson, Cirencester Friendly's CEO, is to retire in April 2023, at which point...

Cirencester Friendly attains ServiceMark accreditation

Cirencester Friendly has been awarded The Institute of Customer Service (ICS) ‘ServiceMark’ accreditation. ServiceMark is...

L&G promotes ‘Be well, Get better, Be supported’

Legal & General has launched its new campaign Be well, Get better, Be supported,...

Royal London improves CI cover for parents

Royal London has made changes to its critical illness cover (CIC) to help improve...

Shepherds Friendly joins PDG Claims Charter

Shepherds Friendly has joined the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) Claims Charter, which sets out...

Towergate to offer workplace mental health training

Towergate Health & Protection has teamed up with CBT Clinics to help its clients...

iPipeline to revamp OneFamily’s technology platform 

OneFamily has engaged iPipeline to overhaul its existing platform which currently serves 2.6 million...

The Exeter offers level guaranteed premiums across all occupation classes

The Exeter has launched a new income protection product combining its Income One and...

AIG Life moves to simplify Group CI

AIG Life has consolidated its Group Critical Illness conditions under grouped headings with the aim...

New CEO for National Friendly

Graham Singleton has been appointed as the new CEO of National Friendly, the Bristol-based...

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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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Mortgage brokers bullish on rate cuts

More than half of mortgage brokers (52%) say they expect at least two cuts...

Former Nikko chief warns CGT on homes would punish owners

A leading City figure has warned that imposing capital gains tax (CGT) on primary...

The Swansea renews sponsorship of Swansea RFC for 2025/26

Swansea Building Society has renewed its sponsorship of Swansea RFC for the 2025/26 season,...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let offerings

HSBC UK has announced a wide set of rate reductions across its residential and...