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McDermott rules herself out of top FCA job

Tracey McDermott, acting chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decided in early...

L&G updates MCD info hub

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) Matrix, which...

PI Financial joins forces with Smart Money

PI Financial has selected Smart Money Ltd as its preferred partner for the provision of second charge...

Y3S expands office space

Y3S Group, the Cardiff-based specialist mortgage and loan packager, has agreed terms and received...

Mortgage Brain sees 23% uplift in broker attendance

Mortgage Brain's 2015 series of Mortgage Vision events, held during October and November, saw a...

Together appoints general counsel

Nigel Dale is to join Together as its general counsel. He is currently a banking...

OneSavings Bank hires sales chief

OneSavings Bank has announced the appointment of Adrian Moloney as its new sales director...

Together appoints group valuations manager

Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, following 12 years with...

Commercial specialist joins Largemortgageloans.com

Largemortgageloans.com has made a new appointment to its senior management team. Charles Ayton joins as...

Hampton Mortgage Servicing selects Phoebus Software

Hampton Mortgage Servicing (HMS) has agreed a three year contract with Phoebus Software Ltd...

Zena Campbell to leave Spring Finance

Spring Finance has announced that that its head of new business, Zena Campbell, is to leave...

TFC secures full home finance permissions

Specialist distributor TFC Homeloans has been granted home finance permissions by the Financial Conduct...

7% rise in consumer finance

There was 7% growth in consumer finance new business in October, compared with the...

MPC holds bank rate once again

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to maintain the Bank...

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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UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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...

The Buckinghamshire launches new discounted rate range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new discounted rate mortgage range, giving brokers greater...

Norton Home Loans completes first MAB case after lender panel appointment

Norton Home Loans has completed its first case with Mortgage Advice Bureau since joining...

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