Portal receives cold welcome

LeadPoint, a lead generation portal, is to expand its offering and launch into the protection arena, writes Lucy Quinton. Justin Rees, head of marketing at the firm, said the expansion was "due to the mortgage market decreasing so we have been looking at other areas". He added that in a few months, LeadPoint wanted protection to be a big area and overtake the mortgage side. He said LeadPoint had been piloting the scheme for a month. "We wanted to do a month of trading to see how it works. It is currently open to existing customers and we will release this to new ones in a few weeks," he...