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Scottish Provident paid out 91% of CI claims

Scottish Provident paid out almost £47 million to its critical illness policy holders during...

Overseas opportunities

How easy is it to secure finance in foreign climes? Clare Nessling, operations director...

N&P members give green light to YBS merger

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society's (N&P's) saving and borrowing members have voted in favour...

Firms more confident about own future than UK economy

Only 23% of companies feel positive about the current UK economy, with 66% of...

Link Loans acquired by WLB

Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank has announced the acquisition of Link Loans. The bank itself was acquired...

New POS system from Stonebridge Group

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge Group has unveiled a new point-of-sale (POS) solution which...

Greater reliance than ever on PRS

Paragon has welcomed figures from by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG)...

LV= adds flexibility to equity release range

LV= has launched a new, 'flexible' lending policy for its equity release products. The Retirement...

Beware criteria creep

We need a stress-tested market, warns Bob Young, managing director of Capital Home Loans Concentrating...

Average age of a FTB now 35, Post Office claims

35 is the average age that a prospective homebuyer now expects to be before...

Scottish house prices akin to those four and a half years ago

Scottish house prices are almost identical to the price level of four and a...

HSBC branch chief to head Yorkshire Building Society

Chris Pilling, currently head of branch network at HSBC Bank plc, will become the...

Promotion at Dragonfly

Dragonfly Property Finance has promoted Lee Carling to the position of credit support and...

New buy-to-let exclusives from TBMC

TBMC has launched two new exclusive buy-to-let mortgage products with Hinckley & Rugby Building...

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...

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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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