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L&G reveals individual claims data for 2019

Legal & General paid out £731m across its Life, Critical Illness Cover, Terminal Illness...

Over 250 virtual event bookings for SimplyBiz Mortgages

SimplyBiz Mortgages has reported more than 250 bookings for its upcoming round of Mortgage...

Paymentshield provides CPD resource centre for GI

Paymentshield has launched its first CPD resource centre to provide business support to advisers...

78% of Countrywide staff on furlough

Countrywide plc has revealed today that its pipeline through the lockdown period has remained resilient...

Coventry for Intermediaries reintroduces 75% LTV remortgages

Coventry for Intermediaries has reintroduced new products for borrowers looking to remortgage. The lender has...

LMS reports increased remortgage instruction levels

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19 crisis. The...

MFS arranges £500k bridging loan during lockdown

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has completed a £500,000 bridging loan to help a client...

L&G Mortgage Club issues Covid-19 FAQs for all advisers

Legal & General Mortgage Club has published a dedicated Covid-19 FAQ page, available to...

Gatehouse Bank appoints intermediary sales head

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Lottie Clayton to the position of head of intermediary sales. Clayton...

Mortgage Brain sees cause for cautious optimism in latest data

Mortgage Brain has witnessed a rise in product numbers and a marginal reduction in...

UTB launches automatic ID verification sharing

United Trust Bank's ID verification information can be automatically shared with the bridging customer’s...

Individual protection payouts at LV= top £100m

LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling £100 million during 2019. It supported more than...

Pre-Covid rents stood still

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) have revealed that UK tenants paid average monthly rents of...

Phoebus Software appoints client executive

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has appointed Mark Smitheringale to the position of client executive. Smitheringale...

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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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