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MBE London to feature Equity Release Council seminars and debate

The Equity Release Council will be holding seminars and a panel Q&A at Mortgage...

Key Retirement appoints CEO

Key Retirement has promoted Will Hale to CEO. Hale, who joined Key Retirement Group in...

AIR Sourcing becomes Equity Release Council member

Sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending, AIR Sourcing, has joined the Equity Release...

LLA unveils New Horizons events

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has announced a series of events entitled ‘New Horizons’ to support...

Banks of Mum & Dad sacrificing pension funds

Prudential has calculated that the Bank of Mum and Dad is potentially the most...

FSE 2017: mooted interest-only changes welcomed

The Financial Services Expo (FSE) London exhibition yesterday saw later life lending experts welcome...

Average equity release rates fall to new low

The number of product options available in the equity release market has grown significantly...

Key Retirement to hold Chelsea and West Ham events

Key Partnerships is to hold two events at Chelsea and West Ham to discuss...

Openwork to fund mortgage brokers to advise on wealth

Openwork has unveiled ‘Route to Wealth’, a new initiative to support firms to upskill...

Brightstar joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Brightstar Financial has been added to Legal & General Mortgage Club’s specialist distributor panel. Brightstar...

‘My house is my pension’ theory challenged

Prudential has reported that over 3.9 million over-55s plan to downsize to a cheaper...

“UK’s first criteria search system” launches

Knowledge Bank, which claims to be the UK’s first criteria search system, has...

Aegon wants intergenerational fairness from Autumn Budget

Aegon has outlined its priorities for savers and called on the Chancellor to become...

OneFamily appoints funding consultant

OneFamily has appointed Denise Saber as a funding consultant. She will report to John Adams,...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

Affordability pressures deepen in Wales and North East as rental divergence widens

Regional divergence within the UK’s private rented sector has become more pronounced, with new...

Santander lowers mortgage pricing and unveils new large loan options

Santander is set to cut its residential fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.14...

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