Mortgages

New AR firm for Stonebridge

Access Mortgages (Scotland) Ltd is joining Stonebridge Group as an appointed representative (AR). The Glasgow-based firm was...

Barclays joins MCI panel

Barclays has become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage Club’s panel. Other panel lenders...

Networks can offer the best of both worlds

The network model, and the various variations of it, is constantly in the spotlight...

Smethurst to don the lycra for charity

Wayne Smethurst, founder of specialist distributor TFC, has been challenged by managing director of...

Pre-MMR confidence returning to broker community

The latest Halifax Intermediaries Broker Confidence Tracker Broker has revealed that confidence in the...

L&G celebrates 20 years of its mortgage club

Legal & General Mortgage Club is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week at the...

Wide range of rate cuts from TSB

TSB has cut mortgage rates by up to 0.2 percentage points across a range of mortgages...

CML expects upturn in lending in the near term

Gross mortgage lending in May (not seasonally adjusted) showed little change on the previous...

Quartet join Vantage Finance

Vantage Finance has hired four more members of staff. Zoe Brooks has been appointed as...

Kensington unveils new self-employed affordability policy

Kensington Mortgages is introducing a new policy for self-employed customers, with affordability taking into consideration...

Profits up at the Dudley BS

The Dudley Building Society has reported its year end results with a £887,000 pre tax profit,...

MPC unanimous in rate hold decision

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously in favour of keeping the...

TMA to hold DA conference series

TMA is to hold conferences for directly authorised advisers in five different locations around the...

Stonebridge Group secures investment from Shepherd Direct

Stonebridge Group has announced that Shepherd Direct, the national property services group, has acquired...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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