Appointments / Industry

HM Treasury has backed a private members bill aimed at making it harder for co-operatives, mutuals and friendly societies to unpick their mutual status. According to the Treasury, the bill tabled by...

Simplyhealth has appointed Claudia Nicholls as chief customer officer. Nicholls (pictured) will join Simplyhealth on 28 November and report to CEO, professor Sneh Khemka. In this newly created role, Nicholls will be...

Mortgage and protection network Stonebridge has updated its compliance operations with separate teams for larger firms, smaller firms and new joiners. As part of the move the network has created and recruited...

Mark Bromham, senior scheme owner for UK savings and retirement at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about his diagnosis and treatment for testicular cancer, the benefit of group income protection and...

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has promoted Alex Beavis to group director, mortgages and protection. Previously proposition director for mortgages and later life, Beavis (pictured) now takes responsibility for the Sesame and PMS...

Holloway Friendly has launched a new online application replacing its existing in-house online process. Using UnderwriteMe's underwriting engine, the mutual said it was aiming to deliver more decisions online, a faster and...

The number of people in the UK suffering long Covid symptoms has remained stubbornly high with more than two million people continuing to be affected. Latest Office for National Statistics data shows...

Only one in ten Britons are confident the NHS can meet their needs if they fall ill, according to research from The Exeter. Waiting lists for treatment have risen from 4.4 million...

The majority of UK adults expect their personal financial situation to worsen over the next three months, according to the latest LV= Wealth and Wellbeing Monitor. The quarterly survey of 4,000 UK...

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) incoming Consumer Duty rules will prove a strong push for the protection market by forcing all firms to consider how they approach it, according to Association of...