Mortgages

The Mortgage Lender promotes pair to key roles

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has promoted Charlie Stack and Anum Mahmood to key account...

New 80-95% LTV two-year deals from the Nottingham

The Nottingham has unveiled a new range of two-year fixed residential mortgages. Available at 80%...

Tandem to provide second charge green discount

Digital bank Tandem has launched a new green product feature to its second charge...

TRM Network returns to face-to-face events

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network hosted around 350 advisers as it returned to...

Generation Home appoints commercial director

Generation Home has appointed Pete Dockar as commercial director. He joins from Virgin Money, where...

Gatehouse Bank unveils green home finance products

Gatehouse Bank has launched a range of green home finance products for UK homeowners...

AMI infuriated by FCA ‘arrogance’ over fees

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has accused the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of being more...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints national sales manager

Mark Wilkinson has been promoted to national sales manager at Newcastle Intermediaries following three...

Accord Mortgages unveils new cashback product transfer range

Accord Mortgages is introducing a new range of products for residential borrowers wanting a...

Major distributor trio unveil Mortgage Climate Action Group

Three mortgage distributors, Legal & General, Sesame Bankhall Group and SimplyBiz Mortgages, have announced...

LiveMore creates four-tier structure to product range

LiveMore Capital has revised its entire product range for borrowers aged 50 to 90+. Instead...

New client vulnerability rating tool launches to brokers

MorganAsh has launched a consumer vulnerability assessment tool, providing an objective ‘resilience rating’ similar...

Borrowers would like to use mortgage to fund cosmetic surgery

7% of male mortgage holders and 3% of female ones would consider extending their...

Buy-to-let driving growth in green mortgage market

Defaqto has examined how the green mortgage market is growing, incentivising homeowners to make...
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COMMENT

Technology

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

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Mortgage brokers have little to fear from AI, says Mortgageforce boss

Mortgage brokers should embrace artificial intelligence rather than fear it will ultimately replace them,...
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Waiting for completion causes greater anxiety than saving for a deposit

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Leasehold delays put Christmas property completions under pressure

Homebuyers hoping to complete before Christmas face increasingly tight deadlines, with leasehold transactions and...
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Conveyancing firms warned over risks of uncoordinated AI adoption

Conveyancing firms risk undermining the benefits of artificial intelligence unless they address weaknesses in...

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