BIBA

Calls for the FSA to extend its regulatory remit to comparison websites gathered pace today with other firms putting their weight behind the appeal.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association says it is launching a series of payment protection insurance products with enhanced benefits and improved commissions to boost intermediary and consumer confidence in the market.

Single premium payment protection insurance policies are bad value and should be outlawed as part of a clean up of the PPI industry, according to the British Insurance Broker's Association (BIBA).

An on-line training aid to help firms protect themselves from identity fraud is being launch tomorrow by CIFAS, the Uk's fraud prevention service.

Three industry bodies have teamed up and created a working group for insurers and brokers to assist them with the FSA regulation coming into effect in a couple of months' time.

Eight out of ten insurance intermediaries have yet to register with the FSA - let alone complete an application form - ahead of the introduction next year of rules governing non-regulated insurance products.