Mortgages

Skipton appoints BDM for the South West

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has appointed Steve Bond to the team of business...

Foundation Home Loans creates pair of managing directors

Foundation Home Loans lender has announced the creation of two managing directors. Kelly Pallister is...

Hodge appoints new chief operating officer

Hodge has appointed former Ascentric chief executive, Rob Regan, as its new chief operating...

Harpenden BS appoints commercial director

Mike Cutler has been appointed as Harpenden Building Society’s commercial director. In this newly created...

Rising cost of living behind second charge interest

Borrowers are turning to second charge mortgages to help alleviate financial issues, according to...

Newcastle Intermediaries joins Experian’s mortgage eligibility hub

Newcastle Intermediaries has joined Experian’s mortgage eligibility hub in order to reduce the time...

The Mortgage Lender removes unsecured arrears cascading

The Mortgage Lender has made changes to its residential lending tiers and removed the...

Brokers remained busy after end of Stamp Duty holiday

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has revealed that mortgage advisers processed more cases...

VAS Audit launches personalised AVMs

VAS Audit has launched Valuation Desktop+ for lenders who require the speed and flexibility...

Affinity Mortgages joins Proportunity broker panel

Affinity Mortgages has been added to the panel of brokers at Proportunity, the shared...

Virgin Money increases all BTL and residential fixed rates

Virgin Money is making changes to all of its fixed rate mortgages at 8pm...

The Nottingham changes self-build strategy

The Nottingham is moving to a "cost-based self-build and custom-build lending approach" through specialist...

Pepper completes largest securitisation to date

Pepper Money has closed its largest Residential Mortgage-Backed Securitisation (RMBS) to date, Polaris 2022-1,...

Central Trust improves specialist mortgage offering

Central Trust has revised to its residential mortgage proposition, including helping customers with secured...
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COMMENT

Comment

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

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....

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Goldman Sachs discloses 3.15% stake in Secure Trust Bank

Goldman Sachs has reported a 3.15% voting interest in Secure Trust Bank following a...
Building Societies

Market Harborough launches rental scheme offering deposit contributions to first-time buyers

Market Harborough Building Society is offering aspiring homeowners the chance to recover 60% of...
Building Societies

Tipton adds discounted rates for expat and limited company landlords

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has expanded its variable rate buy-to-let mortgage range with...
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WIS Mortgages sets out five-year adviser growth strategy

WIS Mortgages has announced a five-year growth plan centred on expanding its adviser community...

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