Protection

Strong growth for Stonebridge Group

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

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...
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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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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...
Building Societies

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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