FSA to facilitate comparison of debt insurance

Released on: November 3, 2007, 3:01 am

Press Release Author: Gracy

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: The financial regulator will publish comparison tables for
borrowers who want to take out payment protection insurance policies.

Press Release Body: London (loans-bazaar) November 2, 2007: The Financial Services
Authority will provide comparison tables for payment protection insurance on its
website. Earlier, the research carried out by the financial regulator and other
consumer bodies like Citizens\' Advice and the Office of Fair Trading revealed that
these insurance policies were being widely mis-sold to the innocent borrowers.

The payment protection insurance is meant to help borrowers making repayments on
mortgages, secured loans and personal loans. Should a borrower fail to repay the
instalment due to illness, accident or unemployment; the policy will ensure that the
repayments are maintained without any default.

The research carried out by the consumer bodies reveals that many borrowers have
bought the insurance policies when they do not need them either because they do not
qualify for protection or because the policies are not fit for them with exclusions
in the small print.

The regulator's plan to publish advice on purchasing of payment protection insurance
policies is directed at bringing more transparency to the thousands of borrowers
seeking to insure their repayments. The comparison tables would be available on the
website of the FSA from March next year.

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