Barclays has put aside an extra £700m to compensate customers for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, bringing total provisions to £2bn.

Over 70% of brokers have ranked 'speed of service' as the most important factor when insurance providers offer services to them.

Comparison site MoneySupermarket has agreed to buy MoneySavingExpert for £87m from founder Martin Lewis.

A former head of security at Lloyds Banking Group has been charged in connection with an alleged £2.5m fraud.

More than a quarter of mortgage advisers are unaware that from 6 April 2012 they will not be allowed to sell accident, sickness and unemployment (ASU) style insurance products, including PPI and MPPI, at the point of sale of a mortgage, according to LV=....

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added protection specialist, Engage Mutual Assurance, to its protection panel.

Advisers have relied too much on mortgages and should be exploiting the opportunities in protection, said a top mortgage boss.

More than one million under-40s are struggling to cope with debt, leaving them unable to build up assets in the same way as previous generations,according to the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS).

Almost 43% of mortgage holders do not have life cover to protect their mortgage, according to data from Sainsbury's life insurance.

The remortgage market showed signs of recovery after the Conveyancing Alliance reported a 48% increase in mortgage instructions, over the last quarter.