Protection

Majority of Guardian’s life insurance policies used beneficiary nomination

Guardian has published information about the take-up of its beneficiary nomination tool, Payout Planner,...

Legal & General makes executive team changes within retail division

Legal & General Retail, the savings, protection and retirement arm of L&G, has announced...

Legal & General Mortgage Club launches Referral Pro tool

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the launch of its new Referral Pro...

The Right Mortgage appoints new national account manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and The Right DA Club has announced the...

48% of 2023 Cirencester Friendly claims were from millennials

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.8% of claims in 2023. Over the past decade, the individual...

British Friendly reveals 2023 Income Protection claims stats

British Friendly paid 89% of new Income Protection claims in 2023 and just under...

National Friendly updates its income protection policy

National Friendly has introduced a series of benefit upgrades to its income protection policies. The...

Surge in usage for the Exeter’s HealthWise app

UK protection and health insurer, the Exeter, has revealed that its member benefits app,...

Two new providers for Stonebridge protection panel

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and insurance network, has announced insurers, Guardian and Zurich, have...

The Right Mortgage outlines training event details

The Right Mortgage has published full details of its National Training Event for all...

Royal London appoints group COO

Royal London has announced the appointment of Peter Josse as its new group chief...

Cirencester Friendly appoints new director of customer experience

Cirencester Friendly has created a new position of director of customer experience. Michelle West-Wiggins, the...

Hodge improves 50+, RIO and holiday let criteria

Hodge has made major changes to its 50+, Retirement Interest Only (RIO) and Holiday...

Stonebridge reveals details of 2024 National Conference and Awards

Stonebridge has published details of its 2024 National Conference Agenda, the evening Awards Dinner...

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Heavy refurbishment: structuring finance for complex property upgrades

Investors are rethinking their approach to property - heavy refurbishment is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity for unlocking value in today’s...

Why predicting 2025 interest rates feels like a fool’s errand

In my first (and for some reason clearly not my last) article last month, I attempted (perhaps foolishly) to discuss where rates might go...

Helping university students onto the property ladder

As we head towards the Easter break, thousands of first-year university students up and down the country will be preparing for exams and making...

Lenders must step up on high LTV products

Things are on the up for borrowers with a smaller deposit. The financial information website Moneyfacts publishes a regular update on mortgage product numbers,...

Why it matters that bridging hit more than £10bn last year

We see many numbers bandied around in the financial industry, which can sometimes have a numbing effect. So why should we all, especially brokers, care...

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Three-quarters of brokers expect rate hold

76% of specialist brokers expect that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

The Finance Family adopts Acre as platform for growth

Midlands-based The Finance Family has migrated its team of over 20 brokers to Acre’s...

‘Consumer thinking’ holding businesses back from better finance solutions

New research from Time Finance has revealed that many UK businesses default to consumer-style...

British Business Bank reports how pivotal first Covid lockdown was

Five years since the first Covid-19 lockdown, new data from Start Up Loans, part...