Mortgages

Mortgage Vision masterclasses back to face-to-face

Mortgage Brain is to hold its Mortgage Vision events in 10 locations across the...

MFS products available through Twenty7Tec’s SOURCE

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Twenty7Tec to help more brokers to access...

Dudley: look again at shared ownership

TheDudley Building Society wants shared ownership to be given fresh consideration by the intermediary...

Virgin Money cuts BTL and residential mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made a series of reductions across its residential and buy-to-let range. The...

Nottingham cuts rates and adds discount deals

The Nottingham has reduced rates on its two and five-year fixed residential products by...

Maximum LTV searches prevalent in all specialist sectors

Brokers are searching for ‘maximum loan to value (LTV)’ in large numbers, according to...

TSB APPLY rolled out to all CloudTwenty7 users

Twenty7Tec has announced that following a trial, TSB has been added to its APPLY...

Clydesdale Bank cuts rates and unveils remortgage exclusives

Clydesdale Bank has launched a new range of remortgage exclusive products and is also...

The Leeds receives First Homes scheme’s first application

The Leeds Building Society has received the first mortgage application under the government’s new...

Self-employed continue to struggle to demonstrate affordability

There was a contraction in mortgage affordability options for the self-employed contracted once again in...

Mortgage Magic achieves ISO 27001

CRM and mortgage management system, Mortgage Magic, has attained ISO 27001, the benchmark specification...

The Teachers BS to use BEP Systems’ Apprivo2

BEP Systems has been selected by the Teachers Building Society to provide a mortgage...

AMI calls for more views on inclusivity

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has reached its initial response target for its inclusivity survey. However, the...

Together cuts swathe of rates

Together has made its lowest ever fixed-rate mortgages available to customers wanting finance for...

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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Barclays widens affordability criteria for company directors

Barclays has widened its mortgage affordability criteria for limited company directors by expanding the...

Just 16% of full-time workers have income protection

Only 16% of full-time workers have income protection - highlighting a significant protection gap...

Goldman Sachs reduces Secure Trust Bank holding below 3%

Goldman Sachs has reduced its disclosed voting interest in Secure Trust Bank from 3.15%...

Global equity release lending forecast to treble to $52bn by 2035

Annual equity release lending worldwide is forecast to reach $52 billion by 2035, almost...

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