Protection

Limits on the amounts payday lenders can charge customers - including a rule stating lenders cannot receive more in fees and interest on a loan than the amount borrowed - have been confirmed by the financial regulator.

Prudential has been paid £155m for the sale of its 25% stake in PruHealth and PruProtect to South African insurance group Discovery.

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Transact and Ageas Protect have teamed up to launch an investment-linked life cover policy available via Transact's platform.

Three former senior executives of a high street insurer have been banned and fined a total of almost £1m for failing to prevent - and in some cases actively encouraging - the development of an aggressive sales culture which led to the mis-selling of insurance...

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Annuities sales at Aviva were down 33% in the first nine months of the year however its UK life operation returned to growth in the third quarter, interim results show.

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Independent advice firm Informed Choice has produced a short video in response to life office Beagle Street's 'exhibition' parading IFAs as 'extinct dinosaurs'...

Independent financial advisers have joined the Tyrannosaurus Rexs, Triceratops and Velociraptors as an extinct species in an exhibition sponsored by online life insurer Beagle Street.