Protection

The Right PMI and Healthcare holds adviser workshop

The Right PMI and Healthcare held one of its specialist workshops aimed at supporting...

Q1 growth for Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has published quarterly figures for the first three...

PPI still the most complained about product

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported that during the second half of 2018...

Just Mortgages becomes number one Openwork broker

Just Mortgages has become Openwork’s number one broker in the network across lending volumes,...

Multi benefit protection growth for HLPartnership

HL Partnership has reported a rise in the take up of multi benefit protection...

Royal London makes income protection more flexible

Royal London has introduced a new five year payment option to its income protection. The...

Income protection payouts up at the Exeter

The Exeter has published its income protection (IP) claims statistics for 2018, showing that...

Auxilium Partnership hires head of proposition

Auxilium Partnership has appointed Sarah Moore as its new head of proposition. Moore (pictured) will...

Paradigm Protect to offer simple protection panel

Paradigm Protect is simplifying its offering to advisers by offering just one panel instead of...

Vitality Essentials offers benefits to SME PMI clients

VitalityHealth has launched Vitality Essentials, which it claims broadens the reach of key preventative...

Individual protection market “could grow by an average 18%”

MetLife research has found that advisers think sales of individual protection could grow by...

LV= plans to end friendly society status

Mutual insurance, retirement and investment group LV= plans to convert to a company limited...

Protection and life sales down but equity release up at LV=

LV= has reported operating profit of £136 million for 2018, up £2m on the...

The Exeter doubles its funeral pledge

The Exeter has signed up to the Protection Distributor Group’s (PDG) Funeral Payment Pledge. This...
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COMMENT

Fixed rates

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...

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funding

Pepper Money raises £545m through RMBS deal

Pepper Money has raised £545 million through the capital markets as part of its...
Building Societies

The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...
Technology

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

Mortgage brokers are increasingly reassessing their technology stacks, with sourcing systems emerging as the...
networks

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has welcomed two new interns from Cardiff Business School as...

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