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MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

Social media changing attitudes to home improvements

Brits are now staying in their property for nearly two decades, with 54% of...

Vida pulls second charge pilot

Vida Homeloans has withdrawn its second charge offering. It launched its second charge pilot in...

Connect for Intermediaries unveils unsecured lending panel

Connect for Intermediaries has introduced a new unsecured lending panel for business loans. The panel...

Together unveils its lowest ever second charge deal

Together has launched new lower-rate second charge loans for borrowers with cleaner credit profiles. With...

Prestige Finance unveils 3.69% secured loan

Prestige Finance has made cuts across its entire Prime product range and is offering...

Masthaven Bank to hold charity sleepout at the Oval

Colleagues at Masthaven Bank are supporting their chosen charity, the youth homelessness organisation Depaul...

Pepper Money to acquire second charge lender

Pepper Money has finalised the terms to acquire 100% of the second charge lender,...

Second charge volumes up 6%

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported that the second charge market saw...

Direct lender access is fine but don’t forget to look at whole seconds market

All forward thinking practitioners and stakeholders in our sector are committed to seeing a...

Together increases Charles Street securitisation to £1.25bn

Together Financial Services has refinanced its revolving Charles Street securitisation programme (CABS) by increasing the...

New deals and team members at Step One Finance

Step One Finance has announced new second charge products and an expanded sales team...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

Another Sunny Loans TV ad banned

Elevate Credit International, which trades as Sunny Loans, has been told by the Advertising...
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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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Rate rises squeeze demand as brokers lean on ‘needs-based’ borrowers

Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand...
Appointments

Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...
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Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...
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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

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