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Team Vantage completes charity cycle challenge

Vantage Finance has completed its charity cycle, during which the team cycled for 10...

‘First’ peer-to-peer tracker product unveiled

Landbay, a recent entrant to the peer-to-peer (p2p) lending market, has launched two new...

FLA: continued growth for second charge market

There was an 11% growth in overall consumer finance new business in the 12...

Call for transparency with payday loan lead generators

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its provisional decision on the payday...

TV encouraging irresponsible use of credit

Fictional characters, celebrities and reality TV stars are all helping to encourage people to...

SBG appoints preferred provider master brokers

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced the appointment of Promise Solutions Ltd and Positive...

Wonga sees telly ad banned

A Wonga TV advert has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority following a...

Europe wins Lender Ryder Cup

The alternative to the Ryder Cup has been fought for by teams representing lenders...

Quarterly fall in secured credit

The Bank of England's Credit Conditions Survey for the third quarter of 204 found...

Shawbrook bolsters post-completion team

Sohail Degia has been appointed as a second short term loan portfolio officer to...

Bridgebank buoyed by Quantum response

In the fortnight since the large loan and development brand launch of Quantum by...

Target acquires secured loan portfolio

Target Group has gone live with its first acquisition of a secured loan portfolio....

220 secured loan deals now available

Loans Warehouse's latest secured loans index indicates there was a month-on-month fall in August...

Halifax reduces rate on Clarity Loan

Halifax has cut the rates on its Clarity Loan, being now available from 4.9%. The...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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