Protection

Holloway Friendly increases IP claims paid

Holloway Friendly paid 96.9% of all income protection claims last year, a rise of...

Paradigm to hold further MCD events

Paradigm Mortgage Services has outlined details of a new round of mortgage and protection events...

Society of Mortgage Professionals outlines roadshow agenda

The Society of Mortgage Professionals has confirmed a 10-event roadshow schedule for 2016. The first series...

L&G CFO announces retirement plans

Mark Gregory, Legal & General group chief financial officer, has informed the board of...

RBS puts aside more money in “clean-up” operation

The Royal Bank of Scotland has put aside an additional £1.5 billion in relation...

L&G beefs up business protection activity

Legal & General’s specialist business protection team saw 4,913 advisers during 2015, a rise...

Cirencester Friendly raises new business commission rates

Cirencester Friendly is to increase new business introductory commission rates for certain individual income...

PTFS joins Fleet Mortgages panel

Fleet Mortgages has announced the addition of adviser network, Personal Touch Financial Services, to its...

New non-exec directors for Holloway Friendly

Income protection society Holloway Friendly has appointed two new non-executive directors (NEDs).   The appointments...

Pink Network to hold ‘kick off’ meetings

Pink Network is is to host a new series of roadshows across the UK in...

London and Country continues partnership with Winston’s Wish

Childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish has renewing its partnership for another year with mortgage...

Paradigm reveals lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the second yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

First Complete goes back out on the road

First Complete begins its series of countrywide roadshows today, with the aim to encourage brokers...

Paradigm adds Scottish Widows to protection panel

Paradigm Protect has announced the addition of Scottish Widows Protect to its protection panel. ...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

The Darlington trims mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Darlington Building Society has reduced selected rates across its residential, specialist residential, shared ownership,...

Brokers review sourcing technology as demand grows for connected systems

Mortgage brokers are increasingly reassessing their technology stacks, with sourcing systems emerging as the...

Rosemount expands internship programme with two Cardiff Business School students

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has welcomed two new interns from Cardiff Business School as...

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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