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UTB and Brightstar deliver £200k second-charge refurb loan to keep home extension on track

United Trust Bank (UTB) and Brightstar Financial have completed a £200,000 regulated second-charge light...

Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape

Gareth Lewis has spent the past seven years at MT Finance, guiding the specialist...

AFIG launches nationwide Broker Club for specialist finance brokers

AFIG Ltd has launched the Broker Club, a new initiative designed to reshape the...

NO FILTER: MAB’s relentless founder on risk, resilience and reinvention

Peter Brodnicki, co-founder and long-serving chief executive of Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), has spent...

Norton Home Loans joins MAB lender panel to support complex borrowing needs

Norton Home Loans has joined the Mortgage Advice Bureau lender panel, giving advisers across...

OneDome expands reach with acquisition of Mortgage Intelligence

OneDome, the housing and fintech business, has acquired Mortgage Intelligence Limited, Life and Easy...

Imla appoints new chair as it sets out committee for 2026

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association has named Jonathan Stinton, head of intermediary relationships at...

L&G Mortgage Club adds Ecology Building Society to panel

L&G’s Mortgage Club has strengthened its green lending offering by adding Ecology Building Society...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage...

Brightstar expands youth programme and bolsters national accounts team

The Brightstar Group is expanding its Young Learners Programme and has strengthened its national...

Source and ActiveQuote partnership brings PMI referrals to advisers

A new partnership between Source and ActiveQuote will enable directly authorised advisers to refer...

Access FS adds 3mc to mortgage panel to support complex cases

Access Financial Services has added 3mc to its mortgage panel in a move aimed...

Masthaven joins TRM panel to widen access to bridging finance

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has added Masthaven Finance to its lender panel,...

Primis adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Primis has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving advisers within the network...

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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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