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Ezbob parent acquires Everline

Orange Money Ltd, which trades as Ezbob in the UK, has purchased Everline, in...

CML issues its own election manifesto

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has launched a new animated version of its...

Payday lenders forced to improve transparency

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to require payday lenders to be listed...

The Lending Wizard expands second charge team

Freedom Finance’s loan sourcing portal, The Lending Wizard, has added two new members to its team. They...

Norton Folgate acquired by Amicus

Short-term lender Amicus Finance Plc, which recently rebranded from Capital Bridging Finance Ltd, has announced...

Nemo Personal Finance refreshes secured loan offering

Secured lender Nemo Personal Finance has launched new rates. The new rates on loans from...

Shawbrook Bank to host specialist lending sessions at FSE

Shawbrook Bank has reached an agreement with the Financial Services Expo to launch the...

TRM partners with Crystal Mortgages

New broker network, The Right Mortgage and Protection (TRM), has entered into a preferred...

Brightstar wants specialist lending “made easy”

Brightstar Financial has embarked on a strategic marketing initiative, in order to support intermediaries...

Tesco Bank cuts loan rate to lowest ever

Tesco Bank has cut the interest rate on loans between £7,500 and £15,000 to...

Masthaven Secured Loans improves product proposition

Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) has cut rates and now accepts an automated valuation model...

ThinCats in underwriting deal with ESO Capital Group

Peer to peer secured business lending platform ThinCats has announced a partnership with ESO...

UK heading for negative inflation

The governor of the Bank of England has warned that inflation could turn negative...

FLA: second charge repossessions down 36% year-on-year

The number of second charge mortgage repossessions was 447 in 2014, the lowest level...

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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