Wet Signatures…
…It’s time for e-signature to rise! Have you ever considered just how much technology has grown over the past two decades? We used to search phone books to find someone’s number or had to send a letter to get in touch with them. Nowadays, technology has made our personal lives so much easier. We can […]
Pensions Struggling To Fund Retirement Could Finance Housing Deposits
The current Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary, James Brokenshire, has claimed that first-time buyers (FTBs) should be permitted to use their pension pot to help fund the deposit needed to buy their first home. As we are days away from announcing the new leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of […]
Cyber Criminals Increasingly Targeting Probate Sector To Scam Public
In the past three months, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have issued 12 scam alerts concerning probate, inheritance or customer entitlement to money. Just yesterday, Tuesday 11th June 2019, the SRA disclosed that a member of the public had been exposed to a convincing phishing email claiming that they were due a windfall. Phishing attacks […]
Industry Views Of Funeral Plan Regulation Announcement
The UK funeral industry opinions are seemingly largely in favour of HM Treasury’s (HMT) announcement on funeral plan regulation. On the face of it experts in the sector mostly agree with the Government’s plans to introduce statutory regulation to the pre-paid funeral plan market – which is the culmination of an enquiry by HMT some […]