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Promise Solutions extends seminar programme

Promise Solutions has added Manchester to its list of venues for its upcoming secured...

Brits doing smartphone finance in the small hours

36% of UK adults admit to using the internet or a mobile app to...

FCA to consult over dispute resolution rules

Following a thematic review with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), firms have agreed to...

John Prust returns

John Prust has joined LendInvest as head of sales and marketing for its lending...

Y3S profits up 105%

Y3S Group has more than doubled its profits in the financial year to September...

59th securitisation completed by Paragon

The Paragon Group has completed its latest securitisation. Paragon Mortgages No.21 (PM21) is the fourth...

Paragon Personal Finance joins TFC’s seconds panel

TFC Homeloans has announced the addition of Paragon Personal Finance to its second charge...

Borro partners with ex-footballer charity

Asset lender Borro and XPRO, a charity for former professional footballers in the UK,...

Promise Solutions expands lender panel

Loan master broker Promise Solutions has added to its secured loan panel with...

FSE 2015 dates announced

Front Events will be holding three Financial Services Expo shows next year. Starting...

FCA announces payday loan cap

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed details of a price cap for the...

Smart Money unveils Xmas incentive scheme

Smart Money has launched its new Smart Reward incentive scheme for pre-Christmas completions. The...

Specialist lending still an ‘undiscovered country’ for many advisers

A recent commissioned survey of introducers to Brightstar Financial has found that although over...

Proposed FCA social media rules “unrealistic”

  PR agency chiefs have rebuffed proposals that clients should be obliged to sign-off social...

COMMENT

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,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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