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New offices for Brightstar

Brightstar Financial has just opened its new purpose built offices in Billericay, Essex. Office space...

Y3S added to Precise panel

Y3S has become the latest appointment to Precise’s panel of master brokers. The...

Brits struggling to improve credit ratings

New research by Confused.com has revealed that nearly six million (12%) of adults in...

APFA wants improved clarity around consumer credit activity

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority...

Citizens Advice slams payday lending ads

Citizens Advice has said payday lenders are ‘unashamedly’ using advertising to ‘prey on poorer...

Brits keeping debts from loved ones

More than one fifth of UK adults have secret debts they’re hiding from their...

Omni funds stately home development

Omni Capital has provided multi-million pound funding for an historic Surrey stately home once...

Property ‘boom’ benefits P2P player

A new peer-to-peer lender has piggybacked on the UK's rising house prices, it has...

Strong finish for Prestige

Prestige Finance says is finishing 2013 with a loan book that is growing fast...

Smart Money Loans completes largest Masthaven deals

Smart Money Loans has announced the completion of the largest loans yet for Masthaven...

Savers urged to consider P2P

Responding to BoE reports that UK savers have taken £23bn out of long-term savings...

PPI claim firm sees text ad banned

An Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudication has gone against Debt Specialists Ltd. A text message,...

Paragon offers refurb deal for landlords

Paragon Mortgages has unveiled a new limited refurbishment product for buy-to-let landlords. The new deal...

FLA: 42% rise in second charge new business

October saw a 5% increase in consumer finance new business compared with the same...

COMMENT

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

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,...

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MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...

Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...

RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...

Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...

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