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Bathgate selected as Funding Circle CBILS approved partner

Bathgate Business Finance has been selected as a Funding Circle Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan...

Knowledge Bank adds SVR list

Knowledge Bank has created an easy way to see lenders’ current SVRs. It has instigated...

New 10-year fix from the Nottingham

The Nottingham has launched a 10-year fixed rate residential mortgage, with an interest rate...

Mortgage approvals at lowest level since March 2013

The Bank of England has reported that mortgage approvals for house purchase in March...

More 2 Life introduces six-month rate, feature and LTV guarantee

More 2 Life is to guarantee rates and terms for a period of six...

Paragon unveils discounted SVR buy-to-let deal

Paragon has launched a one-year buy-to-let discounted SVR product, aimed at supporting new and...

New group chief executive officer for LSL

David Stewart has been appointed group chief executive officer of LSL. Stewart has been a...

Roma re-enters market with AVM and desktop valuations

Roma Finance has re-launched back into the market with an AVM product and a...

Nationwide: annual house price growth up to 3.7%

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that annual house price growth in April moved...

The Beverley appoints non-executive director

The Beverley Building Society has announced the appointment of Esther Morley to its board...

The Exeter sees increase in demand for HealthWise services

The Exeter has reported a significant rise in registrations and usage of its HealthWise...

Regulator wants legal clarity on business interruption insurance

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has signalled that it intends to seek legal clarity...

Strong first quarter for equity release market

The Equity Release Council has revealed that £1.06bn of property wealth was accessed via equity...

Hodge cuts SVR by 0.5 percentage points

Hodge is to reduce its Standard Variable Rate (SVR) by 0.5 percentage points tomorrow...

COMMENT

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Skipton loses former Connells chief’s discrimination case

Skipton Group Holdings and Connells have lost an employment tribunal case brought by former...

IMLA supports flexible mortgage rules but says housing supply remains key

Mortgage lenders have backed proposals to give first-time buyers and other underserved borrowers greater...

Mortgage borrowing jumps to £7.7bn

Net mortgage borrowing more than doubled to £7.7bn in June, up from £3.3bn in...

AMI says mortgage rule reforms must keep advice at their core

Proposals to give lenders greater flexibility must be supported by mortgage advice if they...

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