ESG

Geo-energy firm secures £500k funding

A Leeds-based firm dedicated to locating subsurface energy and mineral resources to reduce the...

OSB’s employee engagement networks driving ESG efforts

OSB Group is celebrating its employee engagement network's first year anniversary which coincides with...

RAW Capital Partners appoints new CMO

RAW Capital Partners has appointed Peter Grange as its new chief marketing officer (CMO)...

SimplyBiz partners with Net Zero Now

SimplyBiz has announced a partnership with Net Zero Now to provide priority access for...

Atom bank promotes higher education access in the North East 

Atom bank, working in partnership with the County Durham Community Foundation, has launched the...

Bridging lender supports social enterprise’s outdoor kitchen

Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD), a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to improving local food systems,...

Advisers’ Sustainability Group reveals membership

The Advisers’ Sustainability Group (ASG), recently established by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to...

Pepper adds e-signatures for second charges

Pepper Money can now accept e-signatures on second charge mortgage offer documents, including the...

Legal & General Retail claims CMO report “signals a new era of workplace wellbeing”

Legal & General Retail has announced the publication of the inaugural edition in a...

Pepper Money appoints head of inclusion and engagement

Pepper Money has promoted Atlyn Forde to the role of head of inclusion and...

SMEs express real dilemma over Net Zero

Following the COP28 conference which ended last week, research from specialist business lending provider,...

Investec provides £15.6m development loan

Investec Real Estate has provided Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, with...

SimplyBiz appoints head of distribution partnerships

SimplyBiz has announced the appointment of Fabian Wiesner to the newly created role of...

Offering landlords that bit extra

I’m sure that those firms operating in the intermediary market with a strong landlord...

COMMENT

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

The FCA has made the case for holistic mortgage advice

Last Thursday, the head of the FCA stood up at the JP Morgan Pensions and Savings Symposium and dropped a line that deserves more...

Technology’s biggest challenge is not the one you think

There is a version of the mortgage technology story that gets told at conferences and in trade press with some regularity. It involves platforms, disruption...

Latest news

Millions unclear on cost of credit as gaps in financial understanding persist

Millions of UK adults are using credit without fully understanding borrowing costs or how...

UK house price growth slows as London slips into decline

HM Land Registry’s latest UK House Price Index shows the average property price across...

FCA to extend conduct rules to cover bullying and harassment

Mortgage brokers, lenders and other regulated firms will have to tighten their internal conduct...

Solar and heat pump rules could push up mortgage prices

New rules forcing developers to install solar panels and low-carbon heating systems on most...

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