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Advice is delivering more than financial benefits

Professional advice helps customers to improve their emotional wellbeing by making them feel better...

IMLA: mortgage cliff edge scenario possibly exaggerated

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association’s latest report, The Impact of Coronavirus on the UK...

SMEs show resilience in face of Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a 30% loss in monthly business income of the average...

Equifinance returns to second charge lending

Second charge lender, Equifinance, has announced its full return to the market, following its...

Purchase values up 12% but remortgage values drop

MCI Club’s latest analysis of mortgage activity over July and August has found that,...

FCA wants tailored support for mortgage borrowers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined the support mortgage borrowers will receive if...

MBE London 2020 postponed

The organisers of MBE London have postponed the event that was due to take...

BFS: extend furlough scheme or risk SME jobs losses

There is still wide support among SMEs for an extension to the government's furlough...

The Ipswich reintroduces wide range of mortgages 

The Ipswich Building Society is reintroducing products within its standard residential, buy-to-let (including expat...

Twenty7Tec extends helpdesk hours

Twenty7Tec has made permanent changes to the way that the mortgage technology provider provides support...

Paymentshield to hold virtual conference

General Insurance (GI) provider Paymentshield is holding its first-ever live virtual conference that aims...

Lloyds stopped from bundling accounts with Bounce Back loans

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stopped Lloyds Banking Group forcing small business customers...

Criteria searches show effects of Covid-19

Knowledge Bank saw ‘Temporary Maximum LTV Restrictions’ as the leading broker search last month;...

Mortgage Brain sees busy August in ESIS volumes

Mortgage Brain has reported that August saw the second highest monthly volume of ESIS...

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How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

Ministerial cock-ups could kill radical property taxes

At first it might appear that the mortgage industry and the housing sector as a whole should be cross with the Labour government. After all,...

Got something to sell? Try telling some untruths on X

Why do people peddle untruths on social media? When I say this, I’m thinking specifically of my old mate Martin Stewart who can be...

Funding student property? Talk to a broker first

When an investor spots an opportunity in the student accommodation sector, it’s rarely a simple transaction. Often what unlocks success is the guidance and...

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Virgin Money cuts rates across purchase, remortgage and buy-to-let ranges

Virgin Money is reducing a wide range of mortgage rates this week, with changes...

Majority of advice firms now trialling AI and RegTech to cut compliance costs

More than half of UK financial advice firms are now testing or trialling artificial...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities...

Mortgages and AI to feature in overhauled school curriculum

Children in England will soon be taught how mortgages work and how to manage...

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