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New Accord products include 90% LTV deals

Accord Mortgages has introduced 15 new products and made a number of rate reductions...

United Trust Bank increases maximum bridging LTV

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased the maximum LTV available on its standard and...

Loans Warehouse appoints secured loans ops director

Nick Rember is to join Loans Warehouse on 18 January in the newly created...

Keystone rebrands winter range

Keystone Property Finance is rebranding its 'Winter Special' products. They will be now form its...

New BDM at The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has appointed Helen Linnen as business development manager for South Wales...

Aspen significantly increases maximum loan size

Aspen Bridging has launched a new light development product and also increased its maximum...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints risk and compliance director

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has appointed John Baguley as director of risk and compliance. Baguley...

International tech firm acquires Dock9

MagiClick has acquired financial services digital agency Dock9. MagiClick is a provider of digital technology...

Gatehouse Bank sells £150m portfolio to Goldman Sachs

Gatehouse Bank has sold its Thistle Build to Rent (BTR) property portfolio to Goldman Sachs...

Bridging industry calls for enforcement moratorium dialogue

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has written to HM Treasury, with a...

Fleet cuts rates and extends end dates

Fleet Mortgages has made a number of price reductions across its five-year fixed-rate mortgage...

YBS cuts 80% LTV rates

The Yorkshire Building Society has cut rates on a series of its home loans...

Key Partnerships hires sales ops manager

Equity release referral firm Key Partnerships has appointed Thomas Lowcock as sales operations manager,...

House prices rise for six months in a row

Halifax has revealed that house prices in December 2020 were 0.2% higher than in...

COMMENT

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

AI is changing banking but trust will define who succeeds

For the past three years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in financial services has been dominated by technology. Every week seems to bring another...

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

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Gen H raises new-build mortgage affordability limits

Gen H has revised its affordability model to increase the amount some buyers can...

Keystone lowers rates across majority of BTL range

Keystone Property Finance has cut rates by 10 basis points across nearly all of...

TMG Financial Services sponsors Rotherham snooker professional

TMG Financial Services has agreed a sponsorship deal with professional snooker player Ashley Carty. The...

Wealthy Advisers Club launches podcast for mortgage and protection professionals

The Wealthy Advisers Club has launched a podcast and YouTube series offering practical advice...

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