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FCA to leave payday loan price cap in place

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the outcome of its review into high-cost...

Brightstar creates three more departmental heads

Brightstar Financial has announced the promotions of three new department heads. Darren Perry, Paul Debney...

Households increasingly relying on unsecured debt

28% of Brits have sought to borrow an amount equal to at least half...

P2P platform joins UK Finance

ArchOver, a peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platform, has become a member of UK Finance,...

Fluent Money Group continues recruitment drive

Second charge mortgage broker Fluent Money Group, which recently acquired specialist distributor Brytannic Extra...

Phoebus Software appoints CTO

Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL) has appointed Neil Dyke as its new chief technical officer...

Creditor Toolkit hailed as ‘breakthrough’

Computershare has backed the launch of the Money Advice Service’s (MAS’s) new Creditor Toolkit. MAS...

Sense Network adopts Mortgage Brain software

Sense Network has become the latest firm to select Mortgage Brain as its preferred...

Assetz Capital hires regional relationship director for Scotland

Assetz Capital has announced the appointment of Ian Craig as a regional relationship director...

Debt consolidation hotspot in borrowing revealed

53% of all loan requests in the Lytham St Annes postal area are aimed...

Optimum Credit securitisation ‘significant for seconds’

Fluent Money has hailed Optimum Credit's recent securitisation as demonstrating the "growing importance and status" of...

Second charge new business up by a quarter

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed its members' new business figures for the second...

Equiniti acquires loan management tech firm

Equiniti Group has announced the acquisition of the Nostrum Group. Nostrum is a provider of...

PRA reviewing consumer credit lending following growing concerns

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has undertaken a review of consumer credit lending, examining...

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Stability is not a slowdown; it’s exactly what the bridging market needs

So, according to the recent Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA) figures, bridging completions fell in Q2. Cue the usual hand-wringing. The headlines landed, the...

The rise of the silver pound

UK house prices may have cooled from their peak, but affordability pressures remain acute. Even with recent adjustments to interest rates, rising property values have...

Staggering stamp duty will make it easier for people to move

A proposal to spread stamp duty land tax payments across several years, in an effort to drive growth and boost the housing market, is...

Making Digital Sales Ready properties the norm, not the exception

Digital Sales Ready listings and upfront information have the potential to transform the home buying and selling journey, creating faster, more transparent transactions with...

Supercharging affordability: a broker’s tool for unlocking complex cases

If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? The ability to see the future? To slow down time? To get every case...

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Generation X faces retirement squeeze with smaller pensions than parents

Generation X risks becoming the first cohort to retire with less financial security than...

Leasehold reforms stall as sector warns of ‘real-world consequences’

The government is under mounting pressure to accelerate leasehold reform as the body representing...

Zoopla warns cost pressures mean housing targets are at risk

The government’s flagship target to deliver 1.5m new homes over the next five years...

UTB cuts bridging loan minimum and lowers regulated rates

United Trust Bank has unveiled a package of bridging loan changes aimed at making...