Pensions

New workplace pensions service from Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows has introduced a digital service for customers to access their workplace pensions. The...

65,000 pensioners could lose mortgage help

Royal London has issued a stark warning over government changes to mortgage payment assistance.  The...

Advisers looking towards younger people

74% of advisers believe Brits are not tackling their long term financial planning early...

FCA outlines Ageing Population Project findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an Occasional Paper outlining the findings from...

Banks of Mum & Dad sacrificing pension funds

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

Openwork to fund mortgage brokers to advise on wealth

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

‘My house is my pension’ theory challenged

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

Aegon wants intergenerational fairness from Autumn Budget

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

Drawdown market booming post-pension freedoms

Drawdown has become the most popular option for retirees, growing from 15% of retirement...

SimplyBiz Group partners with Creative Wealth Management

The SimplyBiz Group has announced the launch of a new DB pension transfer bureau...

70 is age of financial freedom for Millennials

While true financial freedom has likely already arrived for those born on or before...

Scottish Widows unveils Centralised Retirement Proposition guide

Scottish Widows has launched a new guide offering additional support for advisers who feel...

Products or services?

In its Retirement Incomes Review, the FCA has found that consumers welcome the pension...

Shift towards ‘preretirement’ continues

The move to ‘pretirement’ – where people gradually scale back on work or change...
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The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

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,...

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Building Societies

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
Building Societies

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
Buy-to-let

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...
valuations

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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