Mortgages

Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter launches

Seven mortgage-related businesses have joined forces to launch the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter...

Rise in new self-employed borrower criteria searches

Knowledge Bank’s criteria tracker for September has indicated that mortgage advisers are working with...

Pepper Money improves residential mortgage offering

Pepper Money has expanded its Limited Edition residential product range. The offering is now available...

Cloud-based mortgage software provider acquired

Finova has acquired BEP Systems, the provider of cloud-based mortgage and savings software in...

Mortgage marketeers advised to ‘immerse’ themselves in the customer

The mortgage industry must ‘immerse itself’ in the needs of its customers if it...

Just Mortgages launches mental health support

Broker firm, Just Mortgages, has launched a support scheme to help self-employed brokers with...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils new FTB range and policy

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a new range of mortgages for first-time buyers. The range...

Atom bank widens prime and near-prime criteria

Atom bank is making changes to its lending criteria for both Near Prime and...

Gatehouse Bank cuts BTL and HPP rates

Gatehouse Bank has cut rates on the majority of its buy-to-let and Home Purchase Plan...

Vida to run ‘Alternative Marathon’ charity drive

Vida is to launch its own ‘Alternative Marathon’ charity drive in aid of homelessness...

The Darlington enhances digital offering

The Darlington Building Society has made major investment in digital banking services. The mutual...

AmTrust launches MGA, Qualis Credit Risk

AmTrust International (AI) created a new specialist mortgage and credit Managing General Agent (MGA),...

September fall in 95%+ LTV mortgage searches

Twenty7Tec has published its monthly mortgage market data for September 2021. The mortgage technology...

Online mortgage broker launches to non-high street customers

An online mortgage broker, Haysto, has this week launched for customers who don’t fit...

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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