mortgage insurance Archive

  • What is the Purpose of Using a PPI Agent?

    What is the Purpose of Using a PPI Agent?

    The primary role of a PPI agent is to provide service to his customers, no matter whether the agent is online or at your door. This means explaining all the various types of protection policies that are available and the differences between the various covers and policy options. If the customer understands the covers that are being offered and the prices are competitive for the cover, then the agent has fulfilled his function.

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  • Payment Protection Insurance – Barclays Challenge Government ruling

    Payment Protection Insurance – Barclays Challenge Government ruling

    Barclays scupper plans for PPI reform Plans to restrict the sale of payment protection insurance (PPI) at the point when loans or mortgage are granted have been set back following a successful appeal by Barclays bank. The Competition Appeal Tribunal has now been forced to...

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  • FSA orders GBP 60 Million Mortgage Protection Insurance Repayments

    FSA orders GBP 60 Million Mortgage Protection Insurance Repayments

    More than a million UK householders are to get refunds on their recent mortgage protection insurance monthly payments, after the City watchdog, the FSA, forced PPI providers including giant firms such as Aviva and Abbey; to pay back over GBP60 million in increased Mortgage Protection...

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  • Mortgage insurance – why be vulnerable?

    Mortgage insurance – why be vulnerable?

    Burgesses Insurance News has published an interesting article today looking at the rationale behind the purchasing of insurance as a protection vehicle, and questions why the public are disinterested and can’t be bothered when it comes to purchasing Mortgage Protection for the largest investment of...

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