Loans

24% rise in second charge new business

Consumer finance new business grew by 7% in the 12 months to February 2015. Figures...

Significant rise in secured lending volumes

Loans Warehouse has reported that secured lending volumes in February were up 10.5% on...

Precise revamps secured loan offering

Precise Mortgages has introduced a new second charge loans product range. New range highlights include: ·...

FSE Manchester outlines lender exhibitors

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has revealed some of the intermediary lenders that will...

18 to 24-year-olds most likely to have a CCJ

27% of adults in the UK have, at some point, been contacted by a...

Smart Money: ignore Scotland at your peril

Smart Money has argued that Scotland represents untapped value for the specialist lending market,...

Prestige Finance increases maximum loan size

Prestige Finance is improving its large loan proposition with immediate effect with two changes...

Y3S drives high performance response

Cardiff-based specialist finance packager Y3S has added a new high performance vehicle to its...

Shawbrook IPO values business at £725m

Shawbrook Bank has announced the successful pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) of...

Shawbrook improves heavy refurb STL offering

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has made changes to its short-term loan (STL) product range. It is...

Nemo Personal Finance unveils fixed rate products

Secured lender Nemo Personal Finance has introduced new fixed rate product options. The new products...

AMI slams FCA fee hike proposals

The Association of Mortgages has responded with anger to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA)...

FCA issues fee proposals

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on fees for regulated firms for the...

Sturgess joins Masthaven Secured Loans

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has appointed Jon Sturgess as head of sales. He will look...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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