The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has followed through on a commitment to launch a review into how financial services firms treat customers in vulnerable circumstances. Under the regulator's Consumer Duty, firms should...
Read moreEY has appointed Alistair Brannan as UK head of life and pensions. Brannan (pictured) will also join EY’s UK insurance leadership team and remains client and markets leader for its financial services business...
Read moreDeadHappy has been told to close to new life insurance customers, with its underwriter no longer taking on any new business from the firm. The life insurance company, who last year courted...
Read moreA German man has been jailed after he was found to have faked his own death so that he could claim €4m on a series of life insurance policies. The Mirror reports...
Read moreHealth and wellbeing benefits provider Vivup, will merge with benefits and reward platform Perkbox, via a majority investment from US-based growth equity firm Great Hill Partners, it was announced today. “This brings...
Read moreMetLife UK has announced it paid out more than £22m over the past year. The provider said that over the period between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023 it paid out...
Read moreGrowth in chronic diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes, is one of the emerging trends that helped drive Dr Karan Mehta to create Bluezone, a life insurance provider for a very specific fast-growing...
Read moreWeek 7 of The Apprentice saw the contestants fly out to Hungary with the mission of selling a Budapest experience to tourists. A further reshuffling of the teams saw protection adviser Raj...
Read moreThe number of referrals for secondary mental health services increased by more than 34% in the period between March 2021 and the start of this year. Statistics from NHS England released today...
Read morePaying individuals to go the gym could be the key to changing their health for the long term. This is according to Cass Sunstein the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard ,...
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