Protection

Scottish Widows backs paperless guidelines

Scottish Widows has welcomed the ABI’s guidelines on electronic paperless requests for medical information...

Supporting extended families affecting squeezed middle

37% of women in the UK, aged between 25 and 44, have financially supported...

Paradigm Protect to hold Q1 specialist events

Paradigm Protect is to hold five specialist protection events across the country in the first...

Cofunds and IPS acquisition completes

Legal & General Group has announced the completion of the sale of Cofunds and...

ABI calls for transitional arrangements following Brexit

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said the UK government should “make a clear...

Letting agents ‘should move into protection market’

LifeQuote has revealed that it expects estate and letting agents to engage in selling...

L&G teams up with Doctor Care Anywhere

Legal & General has partnered with digital healthcare service, Doctor Care Anywhere. Legal & General...

Scottish Widows to use electronic GP reports

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting...

Life providers increasingly requiring email addresses

LifeQuote says it will support advisers whose clients do not have an email address,...

Majority of women have no protection at all

For 28% women in the UK, the inability to support themselves or their families...

The Exeter unveils new protection platform

Protection and healthcare provider, The Exeter, has launched its new protection platform using TCP’s ‘SS/G...

£10m a day paid out on protection policies

UK insurers paid out the equivalent of £131 million to customers every day under...

New IP deals from the Exeter

The Exeter has launched a new range of income protection products. Pure Protection Plus and...

Successful national event for network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network held its second National Training Event of the year...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

Together expands second charge range into commercial sector

Together has launched a new suite of commercial and semi-commercial second charge products as...

HTB launches ‘Flow’ range with rates from 5.54%

Hampshire Trust Bank has introduced ‘Flow’ - a new buy-to-let tier with rates starting...

Afin waives legal fees on remortgages in broker push

Afin Bank is offering free legal fees on remortgage applications submitted before the end...

Conveyancing delays blamed by 65% of buyers

More than six in ten homebuyers say conveyancing is the biggest cause of delays...

PROFILES