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New identity for Promise Solutions

Promise Solutions has rebranded the business as Promise Money. The packager and master broker is...

West One unveils new buy-to-let and second charge offering

West One has reintroduced buy-to-let and second charges products with new rates and criteria. West...

New brand for second charge provider

1st Stop Group is relaunching its specialist consumer lending business as Oplo. The business has...

Covid-19: specialist brokers remain optimistic

Shawbrook’s most recent Broker Barometer has revealed that as the UK emerges from the...

Bureaucratic backlogs boost e-verification adoption

Anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has claimed that backlogs in issuing official ID documents such as...

Nivo unveils broker-lender messenger service

Nivo has launched a new B2B digital messenger service following feedback from its recently...

Unsecured loan for later life borrowers unveiled

A new over-55s brand, Free2, has launched its first product, an unsecured loan which...

Norton Home Loans unveils digital document process

Norton Home Loans has partnered with Freedom Finance to implement new digital secured loan...

Masthaven appoints independent non-executive director

Masthaven Bank has announced the appointment of Malcolm McCaig to its board as an...

Click2Check signs up two new advisory firms to Credit Assess

Click2Check has announced two new advisory practice sign-ups for its Credit Assess product, its...

Dream home priorities shift during lockdown

Research from the Skipton Building Society reveals more than a quarter of the 2,000...

Shawbrook issues second charge offer in 24 hours

Shawbrook Bank has issued an offer on a second charge mortgage in 24 hours. Fluent...

Second charge tech steering group established

Nivo has formed a technology steering committee encapsulating the majority of the biggest lenders...

Loans Warehouse in secure data sharing partnership

Loans Warehouse has partnered with Credit Kudos as its Open Banking provider, to enable...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Skipton loses former Connells chief’s discrimination case

Skipton Group Holdings and Connells have lost an employment tribunal case brought by former...

IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

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