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Accord provides 50,000th welcome box

Accord Mortgages has delivered its 50,000th welcome box, since the scheme launched under four...

Sesame adds seven providers to protection panel

Sesame Network has expanded its protection panel, with 16 providers now available to its...

Hinckley & Rugby joins MCI panel

MCI mortgage club has appointed Hinckley & Rugby Building Society to its lender panel. Hinckley...

Mortgage Magic integrates iPipeline into broker proposition

Mortgage Magic's CRM and mortgage management platform has integrated a number of iPipeline’s webservice...

Vantage Finance achieves Feefo Gold award

Vantage Finance has been awarded a 'Gold Trusted Service' award, from reviews and customer...

Octane provides 1,000th loan

Octane Capital has completed its 1,000th loan since launching in 2017. The lender said the...

Covid-19: BAME borrowers under most pressure

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is urging consumers who are struggling to pay their...

Landbay lowers BTL rates and offers free valuations

Landbay has revamped its core product range, introducing a free valuation on its most...

New BTL and residential deals from Barclays

Barclays is launching new purchase and remortgage products for both residential and buy-to-let. New products...

Andy Reid joins MFS

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has appointed industry stalwart Andy Reid as its...

Tenants “heading for country” due to Covid

21% of landlords believe tenants who want more space will look to move to...

September residential transactions up 19% on August

HMRC's provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in September 2020 is 98,010. This...

Property market “caught fire” in the summer

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that UK house prices increased by...

Keystone publishes SLA information

Keystone Property Finance is to publish its Service Level Agreement (SLA) information on its...

COMMENT

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,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

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Mortgage industry cycle challenge raises £26k for children and homelessness charities

Mortgage industry leaders have raised £26,002 for two charities after cycling 472 miles from...

MTD pressure prompts 22% of landlords to consider quitting

More than one in five UK landlords have considered leaving the rental market as...

Virgin Money cuts new business rates and ups buy-to-let PT rates

Virgin Money is to reduce a range of purchase and remortgage fixed rates while...

TMG adds Handelsbanken to mortgage lender panel

TMG Mortgage Network has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel, giving advisers access to...

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