The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined three Lloyds Banking Group firms £4.3m for system failings, that resulted in up to 140,000 customers receiving delayed payment protection insurance (PPI) redress.
Lloyds Banking Group has earmarked a further £1bn to pay customers who were mis-sold payment protection insurance.
Scottish Widows is considering moving into the group risk market.
Lloyds Bank has announced that its payment protection insurance misselling has cost it a further £375m.
Scottish Widows has revealed it is examining the possibility of re-entering the IFA protection market.
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The ten worst offending payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling firms could face costs of over £55m to enable regulators to deal with the problem.
Last year the government launched its consultation on simple financial products and a summary of responses has now been published.
It is perhaps not a little ironic that on the eve of deadline day for three major banking groups to resolve their pre-judicial review payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints, another possible ‘protection' mis-selling scandal is uncovered.
Income protection (IP) sales have continued to slide despite an overall rise in the volume of term assurance products sold, according to Swiss Re.