Mortgages

Little in Budget for property market

Today's Budget has focused on the post-Covid era, with little in it affecting the...

Paragon relaunches green buy-to-let range

Paragon Bank has reintroduced its buy-to-let green product range, introducing preferential pricing for energy...

Pepper Money agrees Richmond Rugby sponsorship

Pepper Money has agreed a new two-year deal with Richmond Rugby to become a...

Many daunted by remortgaging process

51% of homeowners expect to be mortgage free by the time they reach 60,...

Saffron unveils new remortgage products

Saffron Building Society has introduced new products aimed at those looking to remortgage. Four new...

Generation Home partners with Twenty7Tec

A new mortgage lender, Generation Home, has partnered with Twenty7Tec, to expand the distribution...

Accord improves retired interest-only criteria

Accord Mortgages is updating its criteria tomorrow to better support residential interest-only borrowers who...

‘Non-standard’ borrowers still being served by mortgage market

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found that a significant majority of mortgage...

Countrywide Surveying Services unveils PropertyFact 

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), a supplier of valuation panel management services, has launched PropertyFact,...

Skipton improves maximum LTVs

Skipton Building Society is introducing policy changes designed to help low deposit mortgage customers...

Just Mortgages appoints head of mortgages and protection

Just Mortgages has appointed Ben Allkins as its new head of mortgages and protection...

The employed vs self-employed adviser conundrum

I recently stumbled across a bit of a saga/debate/discussion/part-soap opera around self-employment within the...

Time to define ‘niche’?

In days of old, the word niche was a catch-all way of describing anything...

Newcastle BS improves Deposit Unlock offering 

Newcastle Building Society, which was the first lender to support the Deposit Unlock scheme,...
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COMMENT

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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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Appointments

Movera appoints Saunders-Proudlove to manage broker panel relationships

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

Chartwell adopts Instamo technology to streamline mortgage applications

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

Coleman confirmed as Financial Ombudsman Service chair after interim appointment

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

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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