Mortgage industry leaders have raised £26,002 for two charities after cycling 472 miles from Edinburgh to London in four days.
The inaugural Mortgage 400 challenge raised money for Magic Moments, which supports children with life-limiting illnesses and their families,...
The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) increased financial services revenue by 10% to £13m during the first half of 2026 following its acquisition of Smart...
Confidence across the finance and leasing industry improved during the second quarter despite most firms continuing to expect weaker UK economic conditions, according to...
Market Harborough Building Society has appointed Brad Nicholls as Deputy Chief Finance Officer as it continues to expand its specialist lending capabilities and enter...
Melton Building Society has joined the Mortgage Broker Tools panel, giving advisers access to its affordability assessments through the research and sourcing platform.
The integration,...
Knowledge Bank’s technology powers all three of the highest-rated criteria sourcing services in the H1 2026 Mortgage Lender Benchmark Study.
Air Sourcing led the category with a Broker Experience Index score of 74.5, followed by Iress with 72.2 and...
Accord Mortgages is reducing fixed rates across its 80% loan-to-value buy-to-let range by 0.10 percentage points.
The intermediary-only lender said the changes, aimed at landlords with smaller deposits, would take effect at 8am on Thursday, August 6. Products at...
Nine in 10 recent homebuyers are concerned that housing market changes could reduce their equity, despite most believing their property has risen in value.
Research by mortgage broker Boon Brokers found that 91% of people who bought a home...
Mastercard and PEXA are to explore whether programmable payments could provide greater certainty for UK homebuyers on completion day.
The companies plan to test account-to-account payment technology designed to reserve buyers' funds securely and release them automatically when agreed...
After nearly four decades in financial services, Sesame Network distribution director Toni Smith still believes technology should make advisers stronger, not replace them.
When Toni...
Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...
For the past three years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in financial services has been dominated by technology. Every week seems to bring another...
Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...
Leeds Building Society completed £2bn of gross mortgage lending during the first half of 2026, down 23.1% from £2.6bn during the corresponding period last year.
The mutual helped 13,000 borrowers onto or up the housing ladder, compared with 19,400 during the first half of 2025.
Almost...
The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a quarter of UK adults would trust tools such as ChatGPT with financial decisions, another point in the report is equally...
The Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation has awarded its one-off £20,000 Extra Funding Grant to Exeter Leukaemia Fund.
The award marks three years of grant-giving by the Foundation, which has supported around 60 UK charities and raised more than £550,000 since launching in 2022.
Previous grant recipients...
