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When did comparison sites start working against competition?

Information.  It’s the lifeblood of any market, enabling buyers and sellers to make the...

Living in the material world…

You’d be forgiven for having missed it given how little coverage there has been,...

Peer-to-peer regulation is boost for innovation in lending

The Treasury last week announced that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending will fall under the Financial...

Why trust will make peer-to-business lending a success

Innovations are often met with a great deal of scepticism and rightly so. There...

The importance of valuation instructions

Phimister v DM Hall LLP CSOH 169 The issue was the scope of the...

Crowdfunding: enabling advisers to become marketers

If one of your business clients came to you and asked for help marketing...

Keeping a watch on tenant arrears

A recent survey by a Law of Property Act receiver estimates that there are...

Crowdfunding is turning finance truly social

Everyone knows the internet is a wonderful thing. It connects people who are relevant...

All 99 and no flake

The news a couple of months ago of the resignation of Adrian Bloomfield from...

Alternative finance: what’s in a security?

Done the right way, anything can be good security. What prevents it from happening...

What’s funding your funder?

I have read with interest the recent articles by specialist lenders on their own...

“Unregulated” attitude to buy-to-let sales is wearing thin

The recent announcement by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) that it expects bridging lenders...

Alternative investment: angels and assets

Raising money really isn’t easy. Otherwise, I guess, we’d all be doing it! Funding the...

Promotions and the Olympics: marketing your way into trouble

Did someone mention the Olympics? Anyone seen (or sold!) an Olympic torch? Is your...
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Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

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...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

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...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

Later life lending and the importance of a lasting power of attorney

It’s fair to say that later life lending has moved from a niche corner of the market into a more mainstream space, as older...

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Zoopla: Rental demand slips as buyers return

Zoopla’s latest Rental Market Report shows the rental sector entering a new phase of...

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