Compliance & Regulation

Liam Richards, currently head of sales at Owl Financial, the specialist protection business of financial adviser network Openwork, is to succeed Owl sales director Pat McKenna, who is retiring in March. Richards,...

Mercer announced today the appointment of Ashok Gupta as chair of its UK board. Gupta will also chair the organisation’s Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. Gupta succeeds Jane Barker, CBE, who...

Medicash, cash plan provider, has appointed two new non-executive directors to its board. Jonathan Brown and Jean Ellis assume the roles in a year in which Medicash marks its 150th anniversary since it...

Romana Abdin, the chief executive of Simplyhealth, is to step down from the role after seven years at the helm. A spokesperson for the healthcare provider confirmed that Abdin (pictured) will step...

Tributes are being made to Bill Poynton, one of the “founding fathers” of the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII), who has passed away. Leading the tributes, Michael Payne, general secretary of...

LV= is giving up its mutual status and is selling its savings & retirement and protection businesses to Bain Capital, the private equity firm, for £530m. The deal follows the sale, for...

Aviva has appointed Pippa Lambert as a non-executive director. Lambert (pictured) was previously global head of human resources at Deutsche Bank where she was responsible for leading the development of a HR...

Paul Brencher, managing director of individual protection at Aviva UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Association of British Insurers’ Protection Board. Brencher (pictured), who succeeds outgoing chair Dominic Grinstead...

Connect for Intermediaries, the financial adviser network, has added Umbrella Protect to its protection panel. Umbrella Protect will provide protection advice to all clients referred by Connect advisers and its network members....