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Two key sales promotions at CSF

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has promoted Neil Elvish to the senior position of national...

New non-exec director for Together

Together has appointed Colin Kersley to its retail board. As an independent non-executive director, Kersley...

Record months for Freedom Finance

Freedom Finance has reported two consecutive record months in March and April this year. April...

BBR rise would boost second charge market

There in an industry belief that the second-charge mortgage market will grow over the...

Second charge club unveiled

Master broker Promise Solutions has launched a new club proposition for mortgage brokers. Those looking...

Equifinance to launch in Scotland

Specialist second charge lender Equifinance is planning to move into the Scottish market. Equifinance says it sees...

16% rise in value of second charge new business

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth of 11% in consumer...

L&G Mortgage Club offers secured loan sourcing

Legal & General Mortgage Club has partnered with Twenty7Tec to provide brokers with a...

Google to ban payday loan ads

Google says it is banning ads for payday loans and some related products from...

Step One introduces new 6.9% rate 

Step One Finance has announced a update to its product range, with rates starting from 6.9%. The...

Brightstar reveals EasySource launch date

Brightstar has announced that its specialist sourcing system and case management tool, EasySource, will...

Belmont Green to use Vida Homeloans brand

Belmont Green, the self-styled 'challenger mortgage lender', has confirmed it has trademarked the Vida...

Equiniti partners with Ocean Finance

Equiniti is to provide its broking technology to Intelligent Lending, operating under the Ocean Finance brand. ...

Consumers “unaware of alternative finance offering”

Research from Together found that almost a half of those surveyed believed that credit rating would...
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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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