Payment Protection
Insurance (PPI)
Provisional findings report
Published: 05.06.08
Provisional
findings report
Appendices
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1.1: Terms of reference
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1.2: The Citizens Advice super-complaint
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1.3: Conduct of the CC investigation
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2.1: PPI policies—characteristics
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2.2: Characteristics of PPI for different credit products
Appendix 2.3: Short-term income protection—is it a form of PPI?
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2.4: PPI and its alternatives
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2.5: PPI and regulation
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2.6: Characteristics of consumers of PPI
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2.7: Company synopses
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2.8: Parties that have provided evidence during the course of our investigation
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2.9: PPI value chain
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2.10: Advantages of single-premium PPI policies
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3.1: Evidence for market definition
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3.2: Analysis of PPI price increases for MPPI, PLPPI and CCPPI
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3.3: Analysis of PPI price increases—methodology and results
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3.4: Evidence on the extent of PPI search
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3.5: The role of intermediaries in the sale of MPPI
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3.6: The extent of competitive constraint placed on PPI by alternative types of insurance products
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3.7: Complementary goods and market definition
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3.8: Use of price comparison websites
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3.9: Implications of CC GfK NOP 2008 in-home survey results for downstream market definition
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4.1: Evidence from the parties regarding the variation in PPI prices from 2002 to 2006
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4.2: PPI price dispersion
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4.3: Evidence of switching of PPI-credit combinations and stand-alone PPI
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4.4: The profitability of PPI distribution
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4.5: Profitability of PPI and credit combined and the influence of PPI income on lending policy
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5.1: Barriers and benefits to search
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5.2: Switching costs for single-premium policies
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5.3: Barriers to entry and expansion
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6.1: Competition in the underwriting market
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7.1: Vertical integration
Glossary and Glossary of company names
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