Loans

HML predicts repossession rate of 0.20% this year

HML has forecast that there will be 20,606 residential property repossessions in 2015. The forecast comes as the...

New multimillion pound funding round for Borro

Borro has raised £13 million in funding, led by OurCrowd and Rocket Internet, to...

Largest growth in ‘extra’ consumer debt for a decade

UK households took on an average of £395 of additional consumer debt in 2014,...

Strong end to the year for secured lending

Loans Warehouse has reported that secured lending totalled £635.8 million in 2014. December's lending was...

Food and travel funded by payday loans

44% of people who took out a payday loan in the last 12 months...

New BDM for 1st Stop Group

1st Stop Group has appointed a new business development manager, Laura Walters.  She joined 1st Stop...

Consumer finance grew by 9% last year

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has released figures that consumer finance new business...

Pancredit hires sales manager

Pancredit has appointed Sarah Jackson as sales manager for London and the South. Jackson has...

Openwork partners with Enterprise Finance

Openwork has signed a new partnership agreement with master broker Enterprise Finance. The network has around 3,000...

Equity release customers funding home improvements

Key Retirement's 2014 Equity Release Market Monitor shows 63% of customers – compared with 58%...

Brightstar appoints BDM

Brightstar has appointed Nathan Ellis-Calcott to its external sales team. He will be tasked with...

Europe’s loan portfolio market to top €100bn this year

European loan portfolios with a face value of €91bn were sold in 2014, up...

FCA to study PPI complaint trends

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to gather evidence on current trends in Payment...

New role for Neil Molyneux at Masthaven Finance

Neil Molyneux has been appointed to the newly created role of head of sales...

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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