Mortgages

Leeds BS unveils green buy-to-let range

The Leeds Building Society is extending its range of products for the most energy...

The Coventry offers £500 for energy efficiency

Coventry for intermediaries has launched an incentive for its borrowers to carry out work...

Just Mortgages aims to train 120 new brokers

Just Mortgages plans to bring in 120 new brokers into the mortgage industry over...

UTB joins Paradigm’s lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added United Trust Bank (UTB) to its lender panel. Members of...

Shawbrook’s new portal facilitates offers in three hours

Shawbrook Bank has worked with Watts Commercial Finance to provide formal mortgage offers to...

Trussle aims to hire 1,000 advisers next year

Trussle is looking to recruit 1,000 new advisers through 2022, with 100 in place...

JLM Mortgage Services integrates OMS

One Mortgage System (OMS) has been integrated across it proposition by mortgage and protection...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.1%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again voted to maintain...

West One launches Funding the Future campaign

West One Loans has unveiled a new environmental sustainability initiative, to fund projects based...

Rebrand for Swansea Building Society

The Swansea Building Society has undergone a brand refresh with an updated logo and...

The Nottingham makes further fixed rate mortgage cuts

Despite reducing rates in August across its group of two and five-year fixed residential...

£35m in broker income being lost from lack of affordability research

Mortgage advisers are missing out on more than £35m worth of procuration fee income...

Reliance Bank launches new mortgage intermediary website

Reliance Bank has unveiled a new website for mortgage iIntermediaries and made a number...

The Ipswich relaunches shared ownership mortgages

The Ipswich Building Society has re-entered the shared ownership mortgage market with new fixed...

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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Longer mortgage terms risk storing up problems for borrowers, warns Sprive chief

Mortgage borrowers could face greater financial pressures later in life as longer repayment terms...

Carter to leave Hinckley & Rugby to become StreamBank chief exec

StreamBank has appointed Hinckley & Rugby Building Society chief executive Barry Carter to lead...

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...

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