Protection

Access Financial Services is planning to quadruple its current headcount after more than doubling its adviser workforce in the last year. In June 2022 Health & Protection reported the mortgage and protection...

Engage Health Group has joined group risk industry body Grid. Charlie Cousins, director at Engage Health Group, (pictured) said: "We are delighted to join Grid and to start benefiting from their fantastic...

Life and health insurance consultancy Tabei has launched T+1, an actuarial projection model used for pricing, valuation and capital calculations. Now available for early access demo, the model has been built for...

The biggest ongoing challenge around Consumer Duty is the subjectivity around its application. This is according to St James's Place (SJP) divisional director Tony Müdd (pictured), who spoke to Health & Protection...

The Consumer Duty has become the biggest regulatory challenge facing the financial services sector since the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) a decade ago. The good news is for companies operating in the...

Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services has promoted Bella Streames to managing director. Speaking to Health & Protection about Bella's promotion, her mother and owner of the company Joanna Streames, explained her daughter...

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has appointed David Sparkes as regulation director. Head of commercial, Nicola Maguire and head of insurance, Alastair Blundell also now have wider remits, to attend certain...

All advisers should ensure they are "well-advanced" on their journey towards compliance with Consumer Duty, according to Branko Bjelobaba, principal at consultancy Branko. Speaking to Health & Protection on the morning the...

Vicky Churcher, who recently retired as intermediary director and business transformation lead at AIG Life, has been appointed as a non-executive director at Cirencester Friendly.  Churcher joins Janice Banks, previously the senior...

The Exeter has appointed Suzanne Clark and Kelvin Malayapillay as non-executive directors (NEDs) to its board. Their appointments coincide with long serving senior independent non-executive director David Brand stepping down from his...