Protection

Mothers lacking in financial protection

Scottish Widows has reported that 60% of women in the UK with dependent children...

New business boost for iPipeline

iPipeline has reported a 28% year-on-year increase in new business processing for the life market. This...

PFS to hold Power Live event in the summer

The Personal Finance Society is extending its professional development programme with a series of...

L&G unveils Children’s Critical Illness Extra

Legal & General has launched Children’s Critical Illness Extra (CCIx), a paid for option,...

VitalityHealth unveils new GP access service

VitalityHealth has introduced a new Vitality GP service, meaning it is now offering and...

Seven new appointments at the Exeter

The Exeter has announced seven new appointments as part of a national expansion to...

Royal London makes protection leadership team appointments

Royal London has appointed Toby Bainbridge to the position of head of protection solutions. He...

Healthy behaviour should inform premium calculations

53% of consumers want insurers to take their healthy behaviour such as diet or...

Don’t be apathetic about protection

The ‘protection gap’ is often mentioned but, as time passes, there seems little progress...

Prudential Financial Planning to provide protection advice for the Cambridge

Prudential Financial Planning has started offering financial advice to members of the Cambridge Building...

60 adviser firms add online protection comparison service

60 intermediary businesses have now added a LifeQuote-powered protection comparison service to their website, allowing clients...

Exeter’s Impaired Lives proposition available to Paradigm Protect

Paradigm Protect now has access to the Exeter’s new Impaired Lives proposition. An impaired life...

Another strong year for Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has reported a rise in business volumes in its core mortgage, life/protection and...

The Right Mortgage selects protection case management service

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced LifeQuote’s outsourced protection case management service...

COMMENT

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Latest news

Brilliant racks up a memorable afternoon for charity

Brilliant Solutions was on cue at Rileys as 70 players and several late arrivals...

Rayner rules out rent controls

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls in England, providing greater certainty...

Mortgage Brain adds Uinsure home insurance quotes to CRM platform

Mortgage Brain has integrated Uinsure with CRM Brain, allowing brokers to arrange buildings and...

Nationwide and Accord the latest to increase rates

Mortgage borrowers have been urged to review their options after Nationwide and Accord increased...

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