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OFT underfunded to police consumer credit effectively

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded that consumer credit regulation...

Blemain supports local hospital charity

Blemain Group has donated over £400 and written over 200 Christmas cards to children...

2013 predictions from MoneySupermarket.com

MoneySupermarket.com has revealed its personal finance predictions For 2013. Consumer Finances Clare Francis, site editor at...

New high for secured loans

Overall secured loan lending in 2012 currently stands at £327.1 million, the highest level...

Masthaven achieves its first six-figure secured loan

V Loans, in association with introducer, The Aftersales Network, has helped Masthaven Secured Loans...

Mayfair Bridging to offer syndicated bridging loans

Mayfair Bridging has been authorised by the FSA to offer syndicated bridging loans as...

Loans Warehouse completes its first large Shawbrook loan

Loans Warehouse has completed its first loan on Shawbrook Bank’s new Larger Loan plan...

Business boost for Complete FS

Complete FS has seen an increase of over 63% in new business levels over...

CAB launches national payday loan survey

The Citizens Advice service has seen a ten-fold increase in the proportion of clients...

Diverse reasons for secured loan enquiries

The secured loan market is not only growing in terms of business volume but...

Fine art increasingly popular with borro

Since December 2011, asset lender borro has seen a 21.7% increase in the loan...

Secured lending up 1.6% on previous month

The amount in second charges lent between January 2012 and October 2012 is significantly...

Brokers reveal secured loan attitudes

The average UK mortgage broker receives seven secured loan enquiries each year, according to...

New app from Fluent Money

Fluent Money is to launch its first smartphone app, Fluent View, on iTunes on...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

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...

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News

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...
Appointments

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...
Technology

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...
ESG

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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