Compliance & Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is sending data requests and detailed questionnaires to insurers in the protection insurance sector as part of its market study. The requests are asking for data from...

Five years on from a global pandemic, employers appear to be continuing to carry the can when it comes to improving the health and productivity of UK plc's workforce. But this has...

Group income protection could become "much more mainstream" following the Mayfield review. This is according to Christian van Stolk, vice president of Rand Europe, (pictured), who was speaking at Western Provident Association's...

Changing how commission is paid in the protection sector could be beneficial to newer entrants. This is according to the Guardian chairman, Peter Mann (pictured), who was speaking at a 'Meet the...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is proposing to cut the rate of interest charged on penalty awards made to customers who it judges have been disadvantaged by financial services firms. It has...

Cigna Healthcare Middle East has secured a Category A health insurance license from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in Oman. It authorises the insurer to underwrite, manage and issue health insurance under...

Advisers need claims data from private medical insurers for SME clients to fulfil their regulatory objectives, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) spring summit has heard. Gallagher corporate client team...

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) has released the first details and view of its training and education platform for the private medical insurance (PMI) market. The organisation is building...

Income protection (IP) sales have soared due to a number of factors including customers' increased appetite for normal retirement age products and the product potentially making gains at the expense of other...

While employers see the value of group income protection (GIP) as a means of early intervention to keep employees at work and and demand for this benefit is holding up, economic pressures...