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Paradigm appoints director of mortgages

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Richard Howes as its new director...

LSL to increase employee engagement focus

LSL Property Services plc (LSL) has created two new employee forums to enhance employee...

Bob Scott becomes MD of the Right DA Club

Bob Scott has been appointed as the The Right Mortgage's Directly Authorised club’s new...

Investec products now available to Tenet members

Tenet Network Services' advisers can now access mortgages for their wealthy clients with complex...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints propositions director

Sesame Bankhall Group has announced the appointment of Craig Ross in the newly created...

Fluent Mortgages integrates with Lendex

Fluent Mortgages has integrated with Lendex, the multi-lender application and submission gateway from Mortgage...

MCI teams up with Loans Warehouse

MCI Mortgage Club has partnered with Loans Warehouse to provide more second charge and bridging products...

CHL Mortgages joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

CHL Mortgages is further expanding its distribution with a distribution partnership with Legal &...

CHL Mortgages adds New Leaf to panel

CHL Mortgages has added New Leaf to its select distribution panel for its buy-to-let...

Impact Specialist Finance joins SBG’s new master broker panel

Impact Specialist Finance has been reappointed to the Sesame Bankhall Group approved specialist lending...

FIBA agrees protection referral partnership

Trade body FIBA has partnered with BQI Protection to introduce a referral service for...

CSF publishes latest Health and Wellbeing interview

Staff at Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) have held five days of activities for Mental...

The Right Mortgage holds virtual National Training Event

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network team held another virtual National Training Event yesterday...

Stonebridge appoints operations director

Stonebridge had announced that Gavin Earnshaw will join the network on 1 June as...
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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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First-time buyers turning to side hustles to bridge deposit gap

Almost half of aspiring first-time buyers are using secondary income streams to help fund...
criteria

Vida cuts residential rates and loosens criteria for self-employed and contractor borrowers

Vida has reduced selected residential mortgage rates by up to 106 basis points and...
Protection

Iress adds AI underwriting tool to The Exchange in protection push

Iress has struck a deal with The Interesting Life Company to offer an AI-powered...
Compliance

Property firms still relying on manual checks as AI fraud risk grows

More than half of identity verification checks in UK finance and property businesses are...

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