The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Nationwide Building Society £44m after finding widespread failings in its anti-financial crime framework over nearly five years.
The regulator said the shortcomings, which spanned from October 2016 to July 2021, left the...
Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential investor diversifying into the North West commercial market.
The funding was...
CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of limited edition 75% and 80% LTV fixed-rate products aimed at...
Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect from 1 January 2026.
The move extends Jones’s remit beyond Carmarthenshire,...
Zephyr Homeloans has raised procuration fees for intermediaries and cut pricing on its fixed-rate buy-to-let products as competition intensifies across the specialist market.
The lender has increased its procuration fee for brokers from 0.5% to 0.7% gross, while reducing...
Rightmove’s 2025 Greener Homes Report indicates that the overall energy efficiency of UK homes is still improving, but at a sluggish pace.
Although the rental sector continues to outperform the resale market on average efficiency, recent legislative ambitions have...
Roma Finance has been named finance partner for the national rollout of the Refurb Calculator, a digital platform offering developers faster and more accurate refurbishment cost estimates.
The Refurb Calculator, created by Tony Walker of Help Build in partnership...
Paragon Bank has marked 10 years since its move into SME finance by surpassing £3.6 billion of lending, underscoring how the business has expanded beyond its traditional specialisms to become a significant funder of smaller companies.
The milestone follows...
When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...
For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...
Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...
The Cambridge Building Society has moved to strengthen support for residential borrowers by increasing its affordability stress limits, a change it says will allow some customers to borrow as much as £33,000 more than before.
The adjustments apply across its full residential mortgage range, offering...
The bridging market has continued to strengthen this year. Data from the Bridging and Development Lenders Association shows loan books at record levels, reinforcing how central short-term finance has become in today’s investment landscape.
What we are seeing now is a bridging market that plays...
Making protection relevant and keeping customers engaged is a vital part of the advice process.
Yet the recent Association of Mortgage Intermediaries’ Protection Viewpoint 2025...
Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy has appointed Talbots Law to its panel, giving advisers access to a new specialist team handling transactional cases.
Talbots Law is an employee-owned firm operating across Worcestershire, Shropshire, Cheshire and the West Midlands. The practice helps more than 20,000 people move home...
