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Kent Reliance hires national accounts head

OneSavings Bank has appointed Steve Seal as head of national accounts for its Kent...

Revenues up 33% at MAB

Mortgage Advice Bureau (Holdings) plc has issued a pre-close trading update for its financial year...

TSB intermediary celebrates first 12 months

In the year since its launch, TSB Intermediary has welcomed over 18,000 new customers. It has...

Pink Network to hold ‘kick off’ meetings

Pink Network is is to host a new series of roadshows across the UK in...

Just Mortgages announces network switch

Just Mortgages, the financial advisory business of Spicerhaart, the UK’s largest independent estate agency...

Tavistock Financial announces preferred mortgage club

MCI Mortgage Club is to become the preferred club for Tavistock Financial's appointed representatives’ (AR) business. Under the...

Kensington joins TMA panel

Mortgage lender Kensington has been appointed to TMA’s panel of lenders. This move extends...

Co-founder returns to packager

Damian Cain has returned to Complete FS as national account manager. Cain was one of...

TFC offers free legals on Precise deals

TFC is rolling out its ‘free legals’ offer on Precise Mortgages deals to all brokers,...

TFC teams up with the National Counties

TFC Homeloans has joined forces with National Counties Building Society, adding the mutual to its...

Duo joins Tenet board

The Tenet Group has announced that two existing directors have been appointed to its...

Gary Little joins TMA

Gary Little is to join TMA, the mortgage club of LSL financial services, at...

MCI expands lender panel

On 7 December Accord Mortgages will become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage...

Berkeley Alexander partners with Modus

General insurance provider Berkeley Alexander has partnered with specialist managing general agent Modus, to...

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Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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