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Pepper Money ups second charge max age for earned income
Pepper Money has increased the maximum age it will accept earned income to and...
1 September 2024
Flying the second charge flag
The rise of the second charge mortgage market has been very well documented over...
18 August 2024
Selina Finance adopts Phoebus’ servicing platform
Phoebus has agreed a five-year mortgage servicing contract with Selina Finance. The second charge lender...
13 August 2024
Step One Finance streamlines second charge application process
Step One Finance has announced improvements designed to streamline the second charge application process...
8 August 2024
Optalitix partners with Spring Finance
Optalitix, a specialist insurance and finance software provider, has announced that it has been...
5 August 2024
Pepper Money improves variable income criteria for second charges
Pepper Money has opened up its affordability criteria for second charge mortgage customers and...
29 July 2024
West One Loans improves residential and second charge product ranges
West One Loans has made key changes to its residential and second charge product...
17 July 2024
Pepper Money’s second charge journey goes paperless
Pepper Money has introduced a paperless application journey for second charge mortgages. The changes are...
9 July 2024
Norton Home Loans unveils new Optimal deals and cuts rates
Norton Home Loans has introduced two new Optimal plans on its first and second...
8 July 2024
Aria Finance reports record month in June
Specialist finance broker Aria Finance achieved a record month of completions in June. The firm...
3 July 2024
Step One Finance improves second charge LTVs
Step One Finance has made positive changes to its second charge loans proposition. The maximum...
2 July 2024
21m people worse off than 12 months ago
41% of UK consumers - the equivalent of 21 million people - are worse...
27 June 2024
“Slow but steady” improvement in personal financial resilience
LV='s latest Wealth and Wellbeing Research Programme has highlighted how the personal finances of...
24 June 2024
West One Loans hires new region account manager
West One Loans has appointed a new regional account manager for the North East,...
19 June 2024
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COMMENT
Cover
The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up
Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...
9 June 2026
Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck
For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...
8 June 2026
The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about
There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...
3 June 2026
Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows
High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...
1 June 2026
The cost of knowing less
There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...
29 May 2026
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Building Societies
The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages
The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
10 June 2026
Building Societies
Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals
Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
10 June 2026
Buy-to-let
Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases
Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...
10 June 2026
valuations
Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications
Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...
10 June 2026
PROFILES
Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate
Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom
Profile: Andrew Lloyd, CEO of Fignum