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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation setting new reporting requirements aimed at improving diversity and inclusion across the financial services sector. In particular the proposals focus on boosting diversity...

Aviva has acquired AIG Life UK from AIG subsidiary Corebridge Financial for £460m. AIG Life UK provides a full suite of individual and group protection products. It had 1.3 million individual protection...

MetLife UK has appointed Charlotte Lade as head of customer propositions. In her new role, Lade (pictured) will be responsible for driving innovation in proposition development to enhance the customer experience and...

Insurers need to up their game in providing better access to annual benefit statements and added value services. This is according to panellists assembled for the final day of the Income Protection...

Cygnet Health Care was fined £1,530,000 today after pleading guilty in a criminal prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), over the death of a young woman using one of their...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) says it stands ready to help the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) better "understand and differentiate" regulation of protection sector commission after the regulator's warning to the market....

Mercer officially opened its Macau office this week, which started business earlier in the year.  The office in the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR )is in addition to the company’s offices in...

YuLife has the launched Yuniversity, a series of in-app continuing professional development (CPD) courses for brokers. The courses, which have been awarded CPD accreditation by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), aim to...

Despite 42% of UK adults with protection products experiencing significant life changes, only 28% consulted their financial adviser to review their cover, according to LV= research. For the study, LV= surveyed 4,000...

Insurers have reported a 13% rise in their private medical insurance (PMI) membership totals as the market continues to boom. The figures are included in Health & Protection’s latest Individual Private Medical...