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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a list of 14 firms covering more than 50,000 people who will not be authorised as funeral providers from 29 July. From that date only...

Private medical cover ranks as the second most popular workplace benefit with only higher pay ahead of it, according to research from Canada Life. The research conducted by Opinium among 2,000 UK...

Private healthcare market activity has returned to pre-pandemic levels amid a surge in demand for self pay treatment. Data from the Private Health Information Network (PHIN) showed there were 198,000 private patient...

Zurich Global Employee Benefits Solutions (ZGEBS) and GIG Gulf have extended their partnership to offer life and medical solutions across the Middle East. To support its customers in the Middle East, ZGEBS...

The combined impact of the pandemic and an intensifying war for talent has meant demand for group risk benefits from employers has never been so high. While advisers do not think mandatory...

Group income protection (GIP) solutions have the potential of unlocking the economically inactive who have left the labour market, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) believes. However the trade body warned that...

The Worldwide Broker Network has added Risk Solution Broker (RSB) and Fortius Inter Partes in Croatia and Söderberg & Partners in the Netherlands have joined as members. RSB is an insurance broker...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has pledged to put greater emphasis on members’ professional standards and pilot changes to how assessments and qualifications are delivered. It will also launch an interactive professional...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has revealed the latest list of insurers that meet its best practice claims criteria to become its claims charter signatories. The move follows a review of practices...

HSBC Life UK is launching a digital underwriting solution that will extend cover to more people with pre-existing conditions and consider applications where terms previously were not possible. The solution enables medical...