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Sesame offers advisers free access to health and wellbeing support

Sesame has partnered with specialist provider Care first to increase its health and wellbeing...

BEP Systems upgrades client borrower portals

Mortgage and savings origination software house, BEP Systems, has developed the functionality of borrower...

Pulse Insurance joins GRiD

The industry body for the group risk protection sector, GRiD, has expanded with the addition...

Covid-19: Risks from suspending health and wellbeing benefits

Towergate Health & Protection has stated that looking after the mental and physical wellbeing...

Dynamo for Intermediaries partners with Habito

Dynamo for Intermediaries has become the first mortgage club to secure exclusive access to Habito’s...

MoneySuperMarket unveils payment holiday calculator

MoneySuperMarket, alongside its joint venture partner Podium, has launched a mortgage payment holiday calculator...

Buyers and sellers expect five-month hiatus

New research by Trussle has found that people who have been planning to buy...

Halifax reveals pre-lockdown house price data

Halifax has reported that on a monthly basis, house prices in March were flat...

Covid-19 dominates FCA’s 2020/21 business priorities

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out its business priorities for the year...

Ageas UK CEO steps down

After 10 years with Ageas UK, Andy Watson has decided to step down from...

Connect completes its first ‘Virtual Academy’

Connect for Intermediaries has successfully run its first academy for new brokers on a...

Equity Release Council makes temporary change to legal advice rules

The Equity Release Council has temporarily changed the requirement for equity release customers to...

Lendlord issues daily coronavirus updates

Lendlord has introduced a range of free tools to help landlords manage their buy-to-let...

Covid-19: PRIMIS unveils support hub within Toolbox

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has introduced a new support hub within its exclusive customer relationship...

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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,...

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

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Broker Conveyancing launches £175 remortgage package

Broker Conveyancing has introduced a fixed-price remortgage conveyancing package through its new online hub. The...

Buckinghamshire BS cuts residential and specialist rates

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced mortgage rates across its residential and specialist lending ranges,...

Final call for views on FCA mortgage reforms

The mortgage industry has until tomorrow to respond to Financial Conduct Authority proposals intended...

One in five borrow to fund private healthcare

Almost one in five people who recently accessed private healthcare used a credit card...

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