Cardif Pinnacle and Equity Insurance Group have joined forces to create a web enabled general insurance quotation system to support the mortgage lender and mortgage intermediary market.

Both companies will be working to promote and support the first4cover online quotation system, which they say will bring major benefits to salespeople promoting mortgages, including no re-keying of data for different products and competitive rates.

John Castagno, managing director of Equity's Direct Broking Division, a leading player in the UK personal lines insurance market, said: ”We believe this to be a market leading proposition which will support the promotion and sale of mortgage related products, and give a real alternative.

Christopher Schwick, chief executive of Cardif Pinnacle, added: “We aim to increase our share of the Intermediary market and firmly believe that technology and data integration is the key to supporting the Intermediary market.”

Purely Mortgages will be the first partner to take advantage of first4cover.

The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.

Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.