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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...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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