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Pepper plans fivefold servicing growth in Spain with new platform

Pepper European Servicing (PES) plans to grow its Spanish business fivefold in the next...

West One joins Society for Mortgage Professionals

West One has become the first specialist lender to join the Society for Mortgage...

West One revamps second charge offering

West One has unveiled its largest selection of second charge changes, including rate reductions...

Masthaven partners with PRIMIS

Masthaven Bank has teamed up with PRIMIS Mortgage Network to  provide the latter's c. 2,200 brokers access to...

Shawbrook ups second charge maximum loan size

Shawbrook Bank has increased the maximum loan size across its second charge offering, with...

Philip George becomes Equifinance NED

Specialist second charge lender Equifinance has announced the appointment of Philip George, as a...

Loans Warehouse appoints secured loans ops director

Nick Rember is to join Loans Warehouse on 18 January in the newly created...

OSB sales teams restructured

Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries and InterBay Commercial sales teams have been restructured. Field-based...

Knowledge Bank sees shake-up in criteria searches

Knowledge Bank has reported a change in criteria searches in December. The largest change last...

Together increases maximum mortgage LTV

Together has increased its maximum loan to value (LTV) to 70% across its first...

OMS integrates with Oplo

One Mortgage System (OMS) has completed a full integration with second charge lender Oplo....

Barclays hit with £26m fine over arrears failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Barclays Bank UK, Barclays Bank and Clydesdale...

Suros Capital sees “strong” new business enquiry levels

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has reported that a significant number of brokers have...

Brokers increasing number of furloughed worker searches

Knowledge Bank’s monthly criteria index has revealed that in November 'furloughed workers’ returned to...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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