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Friends Provident provides new income protection resource

Friends Provident has launched an online income protection toolkit for advisers. The new toolkit, launched...

Mortgage and GI sales and admin system launched

Home Buyer Systems has unveiled a mortgage and GI sales and administration system designed...

Rescue finance proposals to hit SME lending?

The cost of lending to small to medium-sized businesses could rise further because of...

Brokers expect improvement in protection business

Legal & General's Adviser Confidence Index Q3 2009 has reported that the average broker...

Pensioner property values stabilise

Over 65-year old homeowners in England, Scotland and Wales have seen the value of...

ADVICE: being content with your clients’ cover

It could be worth de-bundling your clients' contents cover from their buildings insurance, writes...

Life after death: why packagers still matter

Guy Garrard, head of business development at Tiuta, argues there is still a place...

Forum looks to France for sales skills

Marketing Innovation Forum, the free online marketing service for IFAs and mortgage brokers, has...

More jobs to go at Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 200 jobs in its general insurance division by...

Broker fined for disclosure failings

The FSA has fined Christopher Davies, director of Newquay Investment Services (2004) Limited, an...

6% drop in number of intermediary mortgage products

In July mortgage activity fell and for the fourth month in a row the...

New debt category for Leadbay

Leadbay has added a new category of leads called 'remortgage with debt'. The new category...

Fall in new credit levels

Latest consumer finance figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that new...

Boost in confidence to savings

Nationwide says consumers seem to be more confident about their ability to save in...

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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...

Top five reasons why renters should consider short-term protection insurance

In an unpredictable world, financial security can often feel like a luxury, especially for renters who may already juggle living expenses, rent payments, and...

Credit search vs credit scoring

The terms credit score and credit check are often used interchangeably by consumers, many of whom assume they mean the same thing. Yet understanding...

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Advice Guru partners with Pure Retirement to support broker education

Financial adviser learning platform Advice Guru has announced a new sponsorship partnership with Pure...

Nationwide ups LTV limits for interest-only and foreign national borrowers

Nationwide has announced changes to its mortgage lending criteria, increasing the maximum loan-to-value (LTV)...

Lloyds expects swell in completions ahead of stamp duty deadline

Lloyds Banking Group anticipates a 50% growth in property completions this month as buyers...

Satchell the latest to leave HTB bridging division

Lorenzo Satchell has become the latest senior member of the bridging team at Hampshire...