Loans

Loan firm rapped over student ads

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned advertisements from FCL Consumer Finance Ltd, which...

LendingCrowd hires business development head

Scottish peer-to-business crowdlender LendingCrowd has appointed Fraser Lusty as head of business development. Lusty (pictured) has...

New deals and price cuts from Prestige Finance

Prestige Finance has unveiled a new range of fixed rate secured loan products for...

Crystal Mortgages moves into seconds

Commercial mortgage finance and bridging loan firm Crystal Mortgages is branching out into the...

FCA publishes business plan for 2015/16

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed the key areas of work it will undertake in...

Calls for major reform of Money Advice Service

The Money Advice Service (MAS) has been heavily criticised in an independent report. The review...

Budget 2015: bad debt relief for peer to peer lenders

It was announced in today's Budget that peer to peer lenders will be able...

Lloyds cuts loan rate

Lloyds Bank has cut the rates of its Flexible Loan from 4.9% to 4.4%. The...

Strong performance by Enterprise/West One parent

Enra Finance, the parent group of Enterprise Finance and West One Loans, has announced...

Second charge market in flux ahead of regulatory changes

Smart Money believes that the landscape for second charge lending is already changing radically...

Brightstar hails rebrand a success

Brightstar has reported a rise in activity for enquiries and assistance in placing cases...

FCA outlines social media promotional guidelines

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its guidance on financial promotions in social...

Precise Mortgages completes fourth securitisation

Precise Mortgages completed its fourth public securitisation this week. It brings the total issuance...

Shawbrook plans stock market flotation

Shawbrook Group plc has this morning announced its intention to float on the London...

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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