Loans

P2P lender to join the CML

Landbay has become the first peer-to-peer lender to be invited to join the Council...

Together supports Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

Together celebrated its inaugural golf day under its new brand at Mere Resort, Cheshire,...

No surprise from the MPC

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted 8-1 to maintain the...

New staff at Largemortgageloans.com

Largemortgageloans.com has made several new appointments to its management team. Steve Ayers joins as...

Paradigm signs exclusive deal with Brightstar

Paradigm Mortgage Services has agreed an exclusive two-year partnership with Brightstar. Paradigm will, from today,...

Secured loan packager selects sourcing platform

The Lending Channel, the secured loan packager formerly known as Blimey Loans, has chosen...

Skipton to talk MCD at Mortgage Business Expo

Skipton Intermediaries will be attending the Mortgage Business Expo on 7 October to discuss...

Citizens Advice wants PPI publicity push

Citizens Advice has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announcement that it will...

Market for non-performing loans is “hot”

The trading market for non-performing loans (NPLs) is still extremely buoyant eight years after...

Shawbrook appoints new CEO

Steve Pateman has agreed to join Shawbrook Group plc as its new chief executive...

FCA proposes PPI claim deadline

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided to consult, by the end of the...

Freedom Finance ramps up intermediary staffing levels

Freedom Finance has revealed a more than doubling of its its intermediary-focussed staff numbers after...

MBE launches new finance Expo in Bristol

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced the launch of a new Expo in Bristol on...

MBE to create MCD implementation forum

Seminars at the upcoming Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) will create a forum to focus...

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...

Latest news

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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