Mortgages

Rise in over-50s ‘doer-uppers’

Hodge has witnessed a 10% rise in the number of customers who are using...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves affordability

Newcastle Intermediaries has updated its lending criteria to improve affordability for customers looking to...

Just Mortgages signs up 400th self-employed broker

Just Mortgages has reached a new milestone with the 400th self-employed broker joining its...

Kensington completes £452m securitisation

Kensington Mortgages has successfully priced Finsbury Square 2021-2, a £452m of mortgage-backed securities transaction,...

Leeds Building Society now live on Submissions Brain

Decisions in principle (DIPs) from Leeds Building Society can now be requested on Submissions...

Dudley BS increases maximum loan size

Dudley Building Society has increased the maximum loan size on its Large Loan product...

Accord cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

Accord Mortgages is making changes to its mortgage range tomorrow (12 November). The intermediary-only lender...

Apprivo2 now offered by Finova

Finova has added the Apprivo2 platform to its suite of solutions. Apprivo2 is a configurable SaaS...

Skipton says goodbye to BDM stalwart

After more than 27 years with the Skipton Building Society, Jon Rawley will be...

Pepper Money moves into Help to Buy

Pepper Money has introduced a range of Help to Buy products, forming part of...

MPowered Mortgages expands range and cuts rates

MPowered Mortgages has introduced new limited edition products, with rates across its five-year fixed...

Record high for mortgage intermediary activity

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that mortgage brokers processed more cases...

CLS Money and Nivo in green partnership

Mortgage broker CLS Money has teamed up with with More:Trees and Nivo in an...

Finova adds Metro Bank to panel

Metro Bank has joined the lending panel of finova Payment & Mortgage Services, previously...

COMMENT

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

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...

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Movera appoints Saunders-Proudlove to manage broker panel relationships

Movera has appointed Claire Saunders-Proudlove as partner relationships manager, with responsibility for managing and...

Chartwell adopts Instamo technology to streamline mortgage applications

Chartwell Mortgage Services has introduced Instamo's FastSubmit technology through its integration with JammJar, allowing...

Coleman confirmed as Financial Ombudsman Service chair after interim appointment

Liam Coleman has been appointed permanent chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), following...

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...

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