IEX Q1 FY27 slides: RTM surge drives 12% profit growth amid coupling risk

News release Under plans in a consultation published today, funded reinsurance – which involves UK life insurers paying a large up-front premium to a reinsurer in return for future payments – would be treated more like other investments that UK life insurers hold, ending a regulatory inconsistency.   As a result, UK life insurers using funded…

West One recruited four new members to its mortgage division sales team. Joining the team as regional account manager for central London, Harry Galvin brings experience from both the intermediary and lender sides of the market. Galvin joined from Go Finance, where he worked as a mortgage broker. Prior to this, he held the…

Latin America is a central part of BBVA’s Radical Client Perspective programme, which makes flawlessness, innovation and global standards in customer experience the first plank of its long-term group strategy. Launched last year, the programme ramps up customer experience targets and innovation, including around AI, while fundamentally rethinking much of the product suite and delivery…

12:01 AM, 16th July 2026, 2 days ago 2 More than 200,000 landlords and sole traders have yet to sign up for Making Tax Digital (MTD), with the first quarterly deadline now less than a month away. Research commissioned by business management platform Tide found that 25% of landlords and sole traders earning more than…

Key insight: Visa’s earnings slightly beat analyst expectations as the card network announced layoffs. What’s at stake: The credit card company said AI has enabled it to develop products and technology faster, and to restructure how it builds new products. Expert quote: “AI is also helping to accelerate this evolution and shape the way work…

The Vulcan rocket on the United Launch Alliance launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on Dec. 6, 2023.Bloomberg News The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking information about where and how the U.S. should build spaceports and space infrastructure as it builds out the nascent transportation industry. Processing Content…