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Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)

Provisional findings report

Published: 05.06.08

Provisional findings report

Appendices

Appendix 1.1: Terms of reference

Appendix 1.2: The Citizens Advice super-complaint

Appendix 1.3: Conduct of the CC investigation

Appendix 2.1: PPI policies—characteristics

Appendix 2.2: Characteristics of PPI for different credit products

Appendix 2.3: Short-term income protection—is it a form of PPI?

Appendix 2.4: PPI and its alternatives

Appendix 2.5: PPI and regulation

Appendix 2.6: Characteristics of consumers of PPI

Appendix 2.7: Company synopses

Appendix 2.8: Parties that have provided evidence during the course of our investigation

Appendix 2.9: PPI value chain

Appendix 2.10: Advantages of single-premium PPI policies

Appendix 3.1: Evidence for market definition

Appendix 3.2: Analysis of PPI price increases for MPPI, PLPPI and CCPPI

Appendix 3.3: Analysis of PPI price increases—methodology and results

Appendix 3.4: Evidence on the extent of PPI search

Appendix 3.5: The role of intermediaries in the sale of MPPI

Appendix 3.6: The extent of competitive constraint placed on PPI by alternative types of insurance products

Appendix 3.7: Complementary goods and market definition

Appendix 3.8: Use of price comparison websites

Appendix 3.9: Implications of CC GfK NOP 2008 in-home survey results for downstream market definition

Appendix 4.1: Evidence from the parties regarding the variation in PPI prices from 2002 to 2006

Appendix 4.2: PPI price dispersion

Appendix 4.3: Evidence of switching of PPI-credit combinations and stand-alone PPI

Appendix 4.4: The profitability of PPI distribution

Appendix 4.5: Profitability of  PPI and credit combined and the influence of PPI income on lending policy

Appendix 5.1: Barriers and benefits to search

Appendix 5.2: Switching costs for single-premium policies

Appendix 5.3: Barriers to entry and expansion

Appendix 6.1: Competition in the underwriting market

Appendix 7.1: Vertical integration

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