Advisers and insurers must warn their cohabiting customers about the "potentially ruinous" risk of beneficial payments going to other people after the government rejected reforms to cohabitee rights. Ruth Gilbert, partner at...
Read moreTo fulfil Consumer Duty regulatory requirements, firms in the financial services sector will need to hold data about the vulnerability of their customers. And to use this data effectively, firms will need...
Read moreThe Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is to further consult on changes to its funding formula next month, but has ruled out charging claims management companies (CMCs) and other professional representatives or charging...
Read moreFinancial stresses are hitting employee physical and mental health and already impacting workplace productivity with the damage expected to continue next year. According to research from Unum, the stress of worrying about...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to the bosses of life insurance firms to assess their treatment of customers in light of the cost of living crisis and the new Consumer...
Read moreThe winners of the UK Health & Protection Awards 2022 were revealed at a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton Park Lane. Watch the video highlights below of the night as the...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised insurers must have good insight of the appointed representatives (ARs) they work with in regards to the incoming Consumer Duty. ARs have been a key...
Read moreZurich Insurance has made further commitments to supporting neurodiversity in the industry and become the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment & Neurodiversity's (GAIN) first industry transformer member. Over the next three years,...
Read moreThe number of working aged adults who are economically inactive to due to long-term sickness has risen by half a million since the start of the pandemic, according to official data. The...
Read moreThe Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has repeated its pledge that it will not apply the Consumer Duty to complaints retrospectively as it sought to reassure the financial servvices industry. During an Association...
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