Appointments / Industry

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is making the most of data and intelligence as a means to find out which financial advisers are more likely to deliver poor advice, the regulator has...

Perhaps surisingly incoming critical illness (CI) enquiries appear to have fallen away as the pandemic has taken hold in favour of income protection (IP), advisers have told Health & Protection. However insurers...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury (HMT) will be consulting this month on tighter rules for the appointed representative (AR) regime. The regulator also revealed that it plans to publish...

Manulife Hong Kong has appointed Candy Au Yeung as chief operations officer. Yeung (pictured) joins from Prudential Hong Kong where she most recently led on customer service, claims, medical network and policy...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) saw it’s workplace benefits spend including healthcare and protection cover soar by almost £1m in the last year. In its annual report the regulator said its benefits...

Unum UK has appointed the former chairman of GoCompare Stuart Vann (pictured) as an independent non-executive director. Vann, who will also take on the role of audit committee chairman, is a qualified...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) spent more than £1,000 per case in the last financial year and revealed its backlog in cases grew to more than 90,000 as the Covid pandemic hit...

The number of breast cancer claims appear to have largely held up during the course of the whole of pandemic when compared with 2019 levels, insurers have told Health & Protection. Vitality...

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) said it was disappointed chancellor Rishi Sunak did not go further to bring the private sector in to help the NHS through its current...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s decision not to raise the personal allowance limit and thresholds for Income Tax is expected to earn the government an additional £20bn in the next four years. Sunak did...