Loans

Flying the second charge flag

The rise of the second charge mortgage market has been very well documented over...

Selina Finance adopts Phoebus’ servicing platform

Phoebus has agreed a five-year mortgage servicing contract with Selina Finance. The second charge lender...

Step One Finance streamlines second charge application process

Step One Finance has announced improvements designed to streamline the second charge application process...

Optalitix partners with Spring Finance

Optalitix, a specialist insurance and finance software provider, has announced that it has been...

Pepper Money improves variable income criteria for second charges

Pepper Money has opened up its affordability criteria for second charge mortgage customers and...

West One Loans improves residential and second charge product ranges

West One Loans has made key changes to its residential and second charge product...

Pepper Money’s second charge journey goes paperless

Pepper Money has introduced a paperless application journey for second charge mortgages. The changes are...

Norton Home Loans unveils new Optimal deals and cuts rates

Norton Home Loans has introduced two new Optimal plans on its first and second...

Aria Finance reports record month in June

Specialist finance broker Aria Finance achieved a record month of completions in June. The firm...

Step One Finance improves second charge LTVs

Step One Finance has made positive changes to its second charge loans proposition. The maximum...

21m people worse off than 12 months ago

41% of UK consumers - the equivalent of 21 million people - are worse...

“Slow but steady” improvement in personal financial resilience

LV='s latest Wealth and Wellbeing Research Programme has highlighted how the personal finances of...

West One Loans hires new region account manager

West One Loans has appointed a new regional account manager for the North East,...

Selina Finance doubles max loan size

Selina Finance has doubled the maximum loan size available for both its Homeowner Loan...

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...

Latest news

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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