Protection

Health Assured joins group risk industry body

EAP and wellbeing provider, Health Assured has joined group risk industry body GRiD. GRiD represents...

PRIMIS and PTFS to hold protection workshops

PRIMIS and Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS) have begun taking registrations for their series...

Scottish Widows Protect joins PRIMUS protection panel

PRIMIS has added Scottish Widows to its protection panel. The move provides members of...

Legal & General updates critical illness cover

Legal & General has made changes to its Critical Illness Cover (CIC), to its...

Cancer costs economy £9.3bn

The four biggest critical illnesses in the UK take more than £15bn a year...

Connect for Intermediaries launches equity release and life panels

Connect for Intermediaries has unveiled a new equity release lending panel and a whole...

One million customers told to check critical illness cover

Phoenix, the UK’s largest specialist consolidator of closed life and pension funds, has contacted...

L&G unveils income protection adviser hub

Legal & General has launched a new dedicated Income Protection (IP) Adviser Hub to...

British Friendly joins PRIMIS protection panel

PRIMIS has announced the addition of British Friendly’s range of income protection products to...

FCA proposes new PPI mailing requirements

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued final guidance that clarifies its expectations about...

Guardian Financial Services joins PRIMIS & PTFS panels

PRIMIS and Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS) have added Guardian Financial Services to their...

Mortgage Advice Bureau adopts PreQuo and SolutionBuilder

Mortgage Advice Bureau has selected iPipeline's protection sales support tool, PreQuo and its protection...

L&G improves online protection application process

Legal & General has made an upgrade to its intermediary case management system, Online...

Cirencester Friendly launches My Earnings Protected

Cirencester Friendly has relaunched its income protection product My Earnings Insurance with key improvements. Now known...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

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

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

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

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

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

West Brom cuts shared ownership mortgage rates

West Brom Building Society has reduced selected shared ownership mortgage rates by up to...

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