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Congratulations to all the PFS Personal Finance Awards 2025/26 winners – and a near miss for IFA Magazine!!
Winners of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) Personal Finance Awards 2025/26 were announced yesterday afternoon at a prestigious ceremony in London. The…
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Mortgage rates edge up, but this looks more like recalibration than reversal
Written by Conor McDermott, Director of SME Lending at LHV Bank It’s been a curious few weeks in the mortgage world. Average…
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Can compliance complexity be a barrier to later life lending growth?
Written by Will Hale, CEO of Air and Richard Howes Mortgage Director, Paradigm The pace of change and expansion in the later…
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From payout to prevention: how insurers can change the cancer story
Written by Nikki Cannon, Head of Clinical Operations at Reframe Cancer October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time when pink ribbons…
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Cash ISAs confuse what’s safe with what’s suitable | Oxford Risk’s Greg B Davies looks head to the budget
Recent speculation about possible announcements in the upcoming budget restricting Cash ISA allowances misses a more fundamental problem according to Greg B…
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Increasing employer auto-enrolment pension contributions risks pushing 1 in 6 businesses into insolvency
As the Government heads towards the autumn budget with pension reform on the agenda, new research from Barnett Waddingham warns that raising…
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When the cloud crashes: McAfee’s Vonny Gamot on what AWS’s outage teaches us about cyber risk
By Vonny Gamot, Head of EMEA at McAfee Yesterday’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage served as a stark reminder of how deeply…
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Todays AWS outage highlights the cost of sudden business shocks | 76% of SME reserves wiped out by risk events, says Atradius
With today’s outage from cloud computing giant, Amazon Web Services (AWS) impacting heavily on the web services of many organisations around the…
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Sterling 20 | UK’s biggest pension funds and insurers unite to power UK growth and infrastructure investment
The Sterling 20, a new investor-led partnership between 20 of the UK’s largest pension funds and insurers, is set to be launch…
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L&G announces £2bn impact investment to drive regional UK growth and gears up for Sterling 20
Legal & General has announced a commitment of £2 billion to impact investment by 2030 to accelerate regional growth and regeneration across…

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