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FCA sets PPI complaint deadline

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set a deadline for making new payment protection insurance...

We must do the hard yards to spread the secured loan message

If I was using an aircraft for business travel, I would have earned a...

Borro okays loan and transfers funds in three hours

Borro has provided a client of London mortgage broker Coreco with a loan of...

Callcredit secures FCA authorisation

Callcredit Information Group's wholly owned subsidiaries, Callcredit Limited and Callcredit Consumer Limited, have achieved full...

Rise in guarantor loan issues

Citizens Advice has seem a 40% increase in the number of guarantor loan problems that...

Equifinance sees changing customer profile

Second charge mortgage lender Equifinance says the profile for customers taking out a second...

Warning sounded over doorstep lending practices

A new report published by Citizens Advice has identified a number of concerning practices...

4% rise in second charge business last year

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has reported growth of 9% in consumer finance new...

New Shawbrook Academy schedule published

Shawbrook Bank has announced a new series of its Shawbrook Academy events for advisers. The...

PPI claims firm rapped over ad

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from Lloyds Banking Group over a...

Chaseblue expands underwriting capacity

South Wales based specialist finance broker Chaseblue Loans has signed terms on an extension...

Borro unveils marketing and commission initiative

Borro has introduced a new marketing and commission package to its Preferred Partners Panel...

The Loans Engine secures £750k second charge

Specialist finance broker The Loans Engine has paid out its largest second-charge mortgage amount,...

Record 2016 for Crystal Specialist Finance

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has reported that in 2016 issued terms were up 81%, completed...
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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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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...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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