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A shocked chartered financial planner has been forced to consider a re-brand after discovering his firm's website has been fraudulently cloned.

Following a record year for protection sales, Pink Network has launched a life desk facility to help place more complex life and protection cases.

Industry insiders have confirmed Friend's Life is touting for bidders for Sesame Bankhall Group as the insurer continues its broader cost-cutting and restructuring plans.

Adviser network Tenet has given the seal of approval to a critical illness comparison website for its members to use at discounted rates when assessing the market.

Royal London has joined Sesame Bankhall's restricted advice panel to provide personal and business protection through Bright Grey, and pensions and retirement products through Scottish Life.

Advisers are actively acknowledging the importance of execution-only protection capability but are struggling to make viable propositions.

Engage Mutual has joined the panel of mortgage and protection network First Complete.

Mortgage advisers can ramp up business by taking a very different yet simple approach with protection, a mortgage advice firm has said.

The income to be generated as a pure protection specialist post-RDR should not be under-estimated, an IFA network has said.

Independent network Sense has become the first network to negotiate a deal with SIFA Professional.