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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...

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...
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Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

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MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...
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Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...
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RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...
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Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...

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