mortgage payment protection 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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  • PPI Claims Battle Won Says FSA in Annual Report

    PPI Claims Battle Won Says FSA in Annual Report

    FSA says winning battle over PPI was a major highlight of 2010 in its 2011 Annual Report released today Winning the battle over mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance is picked out as one of the highlights in the last year for the Financial Sevices Authority in...

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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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  • Understanding UK Payment Protection Insurance

    Understanding UK Payment Protection Insurance

    Understanding Payment Protection Insurance Cover in the UK On Monday, Building Societies and Banks will no longer be allowed to sell payment protection insurance at the point of sale.They will also be banned from selling lump sum upfront single premium policies. This article explains the...

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  • Government Loans for First Time buyers

    Government Loans for First Time buyers

    Those self serving suits from around Threadneedle Street who we saw exposed in Channel 4′s excellent documentary on non-executive banking directors, have been racking their brains recently on how to get the first time buyer market moving. Laughing into their cafe crappe they must be...

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  • What a bunch of Bankers! UK Banks challenge PPI ruling

    What a bunch of Bankers! UK Banks challenge PPI ruling

    Feelings are running high this morning in the Payment Protection Market and the consumer pressure groups with news that Barclays and Lloyds TSB are challenging the Competition Commission’s ruling to ban the sale of Payment Protection Insurance at the time of sale of a loan...

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  • PPI – ignore after sales follow ups

    PPI – ignore after sales follow ups

    It’s nearly a week since the law was changed to stop the sale of piggy back protection products on top of loans and mortgages. Anyone taking out a new loan or mortgage (is there anyone out there?) now has fourteen days before the lending company...

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  • Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance for Unemployment

    Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance for Unemployment

    Last December saw UK average house prices fall by another 2.5% taking the average house price down to £153,048 which amounts to £29,000 less than 1 year ago. However the number of new mortgages offered and approved in November was at it lowest since at...

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  • Mortgage Protection Insurance or get a gang of cats

    Mortgage Protection Insurance or get a gang of cats

    Love this offering from one of British Insurance ad agencies for their latest award winning mortgage payment protection insurance. Funny film noir – Ealing style Seen any great insurance ads? Let us know!

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  • Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance

    Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance

    British Insurance Ltd the UK’s largest mortgage payment protection insurance independent company, have once again cleaned up on most of this years awards for the best MPPI products. Here’s the latest offering from them advertising the award winning mortgage payment protection insurance. For Great MPPI...

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  • Government to help halt non Mortgage Payment Repossessions

    Government to help halt non Mortgage Payment Repossessions

    The Government has announced a new scheme to help people who suffer a temporary loss of income stay in their home. The scheme will apply to mortgage holders who have mortgages up to £400,000. The ten biggest mortgage lenders have nodded approval to the scheme...

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  • Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance? For Quality Think British

    Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance? For Quality Think British

    Simon Burgess the CEO of BritishInsurance.com the UK’s largest and most popular independent mortgage payment protection insurance company offers some frank and sound advice on purchasing mortgage payment protection insurance. BritishInsurance.com has won multiple awards from trade press and consumer groups for its MPPI products,...

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  • Mortgage Indemnity Insurance Explained

    Mortgage Indemnity Insurance Explained

    We often get told ‘we’ve got mortgage indemnity’ or ‘we don’t need mortgage payment protection as we’ve got mortgage indemnity’. So we thought we had better put the record straight on the differences between the two. If you are paying mortgage indemnity insurance (which you...

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  • Personal Accident viral marketing video

    Personal Accident viral marketing video

    It might not be to everybody’s taste but viral marketing has been one of the major success stories on the Internet. Insurance companies with their massive marketing budgets have been slow to catch on and rely on multi-million pound campaigns featuring nodding dogs and flying...

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