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Optimum Credit completes TPFC loan in under six days

The Personal Finance Centre (TPFC) has completed a second charge case in a working...

Short-term loan ad banned for RAPR ambiguity

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a television advert from GAIN Credit (trading...

Connect for Intermediaries launches equity release and life panels

Connect for Intermediaries has unveiled a new equity release lending panel and a whole...

Paymentshield adds new tool to Adviser Hub

Paymentshield has expanded its Adviser Hub with the launch of a new tool called...

TSB unveils product transfer service

TSB has introduced Rate Switch, its new product transfer service. It was launched earlier than...

BFS appoints global HR director

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Paul Lomas as its global HR director. He is...

SmartSearch makes Global RegTech 100 for second year

Anti-money laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has been named as a leading financial technology solution...

Y3S introduces West One’s 1,000th second charge completion

West One Secured Loans has completed its 1,000th second charge loan since its launch...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 95% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its rates on a selection of two and five year...

London landlords offered adjudication training

Tenant deposit protection scheme, TDS, will be visiting London in February 2019 to host...

United Trust Bank hires 200th member of staff

United Trust Bank has appointed Daniel Idowu to the position of support officer in...

Hanley Economic BS offers self-build and residential in Scotland

The Hanley Economic Building Society has extended its self-build and residential mortgage offerings into...

InterBay onsite underwriter appointed at Complete FS

Complete FS has revealed that an onsite underwriter from commercial lending specialist lender, Interbay,...

Accord Mortgages reviews buy-to-let cashback offering

Accord Mortgages is now offering an extra £250 cashback on selected two-year-fixed 60% and...

COMMENT

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

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Buy-to-let lending remains ahead of last year despite slower start to year

Buy-to-let lending increased in the first quarter of 2026 compared with a year earlier,...

Market Harborough reveals £120m Gen H mortgage portfolio acquisition

Market Harborough Building Society has acquired a £120m residential mortgage portfolio from Gen H...

UTB streamlines buy-to-let mortgage process with broker-focused operational changes

United Trust Bank has introduced a series of operational enhancements to its buy-to-let mortgage...

Home insurance price falls slow as market shows signs of turning

Home insurance premiums continued to fall during the second quarter of 2026, but the...

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