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

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

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...

Four in five first-time buyers say schools failed to teach mortgage basics

Almost four in five UK first-time buyers believe their education failed to prepare them...

Rosemount adds 12 advisers as revenues rise by 39%

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) added 12 advisers during the second quarter as the network...

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