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Norton Home Loans appoints head of sales

Norton Home Loans has promoted David Binney to the position of head of sales. ...

Second charges: source criteria to make informed decisions

We know from our conversations with mortgage brokers that the cost of living situation...

Evolution Money employs Nivo for app

Second charge lender Evolution Money has partnered with Nivo to launch a new digital...

Freedom Finance adopts OMS for back-office processing support

Freedom Finance has selected One Mortgage System (OMS), the single-input enquiry-to-completion processing platform for...

Evolution Money pilots four-day working week

Evolution Money is taking part in the government-sponsored four-day working week trial, with employees...

Best quarter for second charge lending in 15 years

Loans Warehouse has reported that, according to figures reported directly to it, second charge...

Housing market “continues to defy expectations”

The Bank of England has reported that demand for secured lending for house purchase...

Pepper Money concludes Diversity & Inclusion Awareness Month

Pepper Money has completed a series of events and discussions to mark its Diversity...

Central Trust revamps portal & originations platform

Central Trust has improved its front-end portal and developed its own origination platform. The lender...

Specialist lenders can help during cost of living crisis

For many millions of people in the UK, these are unprecedented economic times. With...

FOS reports rise in complaints about second charge mortgages

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has published its annual complaints data for the 2021/22...

Lender outlines ADP benefits in new video

A new video outlining how the lender Loans 2 Go has harnessed the benefits...

TMA Club partners with United Trust Bank for Intermediaries

TMA Club has embarked upon a new partnership with United Trust Bank for Intermediaries...

Second change market shows continued growth

The Finance & Leasing Association's data on the second charge mortgage market has revealed...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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