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Family money playing bigger role in helping young onto property ladder

Intergenerational wealth transfers – from housing young adults to financial gifts and inheritances, and...

LiveMore appoints marketing chief

LiveMore has appointed Mai Fenton as chief marketing officer (CMO). The new role has been...

Later Life Lending Network to go Great Gatsby with gala dinner

The Later Life Lending Network has revealed details of its Annual Conference, which will...

Advise Wise partners with Comentis for vulnerability support

Advise Wise is to team up with Comentis, the duty of care assessment company,...

LiveMore lowers minimum equity on over-50s’ mortgages

LiveMore has lowered the amount of equity required for its standard interest-only mortgages by...

Most difficult financial topics for discussion revealed

The financial topics that Britons most avoid talking about have been revealed by online...

Pure Retirement appoints new NED to board

Pure Retirement has announced the appointment of its new non-executive director (NED), Phillip McLelland. McLelland...

More2life adds rewards discount to Apex product

More2life has launched its Apex Interest Reward product, a lifetime mortgage which benefits those...

Access Financial Services hires later life chief

Access Financial Services has appointed Adrian Brewer to the new position of head of...

Sizeable rise in new lifetime mortgage customers’ average property value

There have been annual and quarterly increases in the average property value among new...

Any Budget pension changes could shift balance to equity release

There is a growing need to shift retirement planning to include wider considerations of...

Older borrowers won’t all be served by a mainstream-only approach

When it comes to the mortgage borrowing public in the UK, the numbers tend...

Generational disparities in retirement planning

Younger workers are much more thoughtful about money issues than people might expect, and...

Pure Retirement reveals profile of average new equity release customer

Lifetime mortgage lender Pure Retirement has analysed its own data for the third quarter...

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The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now....

Brokers urged to strengthen sanctions checks

Mortgage and financial services firms are being urged to review their sanctions controls after...

OneDome named among Europe’s fastest-growing fintech firms

OneDome has been named one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Europe, the Middle...

Foundation raises maximum residential lending age to 80

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential lending age from 75 to 80...

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