Protection

LifeQuote launches premium and sum assured quotations

LifeQuote has launched a premium driven service to support the traditional sum assured approach,...

Review into financial advice access unveiled

A new review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers has...

Income protection provider appoints new account manager

Cirencester Friendly has announced that Jessica Arthurs has been appointed as an account manager. Previously senior...

Lloyds sets aside a further £1.4bn for PPI redress

Lloyds Banking Group has reported statutory profits for the first half of 2015 of...

L&G in talks over French business sale

Legal & General Group has entered into exclusive negotiations after receiving a binding offer...

RBS expects further action from regulators

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has admitted that it continues to be party to...

IRESS unveils new sourcing product

IRESS has launched XPLAN Mortgage, its new product for mortgage intermediaries. The firm aims...

Network appoints compliance chief

Gavin Earnshaw is to join The Right Mortgage and Protection Network as compliance director...

Openwork trebles operating profit

Openwork has increased its operating profit threefold to more than £5m. It made an operating profit of...

New AR firm for Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has recruited Midlands-based advisory practice, Green &...

Few workers have a financial backup plan

Only 29% of British workers currently have a financial safety net in place if...

L&G unveils second opinion facility

Legal & General has launched its new Second Medical Opinion service. It provides customers with...

FSE London registration open

Registration is open for Front Events' third London Financial Services Expo. The two-day show, to be...

FCA outlines enforcement investigation procedures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated the criteria and outlined the process it...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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