Regulation
Letter of the month
Is PPI becoming too hot to handle?
Treasury travel agents review gains pace as complaints rise
The Treasury's review of whether travel agents should be regulated by the Financial Services Authori...
Government review calls for FSA changes
A review conducted by QC Lord Davidson for Chancellor Gordon Brown has said the Financial Services A...
PB forges Parliamentary Connections
In an extension of Professional Broking's Parliament column, readers can now engage with the world o...
White promoted at BIBA
The British Insurance Brokers Association has promoted Steve White, head of regulation and complianc...
Drunken behaviour
Q. One of our client care managers was stopped by the police for drink driving. He was just under the limit, however, this is unacceptable, what can I do?
AIG revamps accident cover
Insurer AIG Europe (UK) has changed its product Lifeline Plus for the group personal accident and tr...
Disclosure poser
Q. I am concerned about commission disclosure. How can brokers dissuade the FSA from going the hard disclosure route?
Food for thought
Review of the year
Queen's Speech focuses industry
The list of bills in the Queen's Speech has refined the areas the industry will be looking at in the coming session
Appointment at Ecclesiastical
Michael Tripp has been appointed as Ecclesiastical's group chief executive. Tripp will officially ta...
Paymentshield defends six-months free MPPI offer
Paymentshield has hit out at suggestions its FreeStart mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) ...
Flat owners at risk of having dual insurance
Flat owners may be individually insuring their property in a block of flats with some direct insurer...
Oxygen acquisition
Oxygen Holdings, the parent company of the Lloyd's broker, Oxygen Insurance Brokers, has acquired th...
UK general insurance broking
It has been another very interesting year in the world of UK general insurance broking. Just when yo...
FSA application approved
The High Court has approved the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) application for the distributio...
Children of the revolution
Schemes Broker Profile
Biba warns of contract certainty confusion
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is causing widespread confusion across the provincial broking...
Risk perspectives - Think twice before a spring clean
The archiving of documentation is perhaps one of the most undervalued tasks of running a successful ...
Will distribution margins wilt under the spotlight, again?
Distribution margins for insurance intermediaries are again the subject of intense investigation. Th...
Conflict management key to disclosure outcome
Much has been said about hard disclosure in this edition. To recap, some company market insurers are...
One small step
Spitzer
A Dunn ideal
Bernard Dunn, managing director of MacDonald Reid Scott, presented the broker case study in Glasgow ...