Loans

Master brokers “should be fully CeMAP qualified”

Fluent for Advisers has argued that all master brokers and distributors providing second charge services to...

Castle Trust completes first Express Service loan

Castle Trust has completed the first loan under its new Express Service in two...

Tesco Bank lending up 11.6%

Tesco Bank has reported a pre-tax profit (before exceptional items) of £89m for the...

Promise reports “best ever month”

Promise Specialist Lending has revealed that its September second charge completions were up more than...

MBE London reveals seminar and panel debate details

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced details for the series of seminars and panel debates it...

MiFID II repercussions for financial advice?

LifeQuote has claimed that the recent announcement that MiFID will require all investment advice...

Vantage Finance hires sales director

Vantage Finance has appointed Jon Daniels as its sales director. He has over 19 years of...

LendInvest launches online investor campaign

Online mortgage lender LendInvest has unveiled its ‘Real Stories’ campaign, which highlights the different reasons people...

A fair second charge fee?

I gave a recent presentation at the FSE London event in Old Billingsgate and...

SimplyBiz Mortgages teams up with Twenty7Tec

SimplyBiz Mortgages has partnered with Twenty7Tec Group to offer its club members access to the Twenty7Tec...

Together features in Top Track 250

Together has been included in The Sunday Times/Grant Thornton Top Track 250 for 2016,...

Together announces new £375m bond

Specialist lender Together has closed a £375m bond issuance, which will increase its funding capacity. The new...

Citizens Advice sounds warning over guarantor loans

An increasing number of people are struggling with debts for guarantor loans and rent to...

Promise integrates technology with Shawbrook

Promise Specialist Lending has completed XML integration with Shawbrook. This represents its seventh second charge...

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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