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Octane Capital appoints senior BDM

Liam Lawlor has joined Octane Capital as a senior business development manager (BDM). Lawlor (pictured)...

New fixed rates from Paragon

Paragon has added four two-year fixed Portfolio products to its buy-to-let range. Rates start...

TSB increases remortgage fixed rates

TSB has increased fixed rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on a number...

Mortgage costs continue to fall

The cost of mortgages has continued to fall with new data from Mortgage Brain...

Financial apathy creating ‘mental health time bomb’

Digital banking service B’s independent research shows 13% of people in the UK have...

Call for reform to leasehold law

50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 was passed into law on 28 October, Leasehold Solutions...

Paymentshield hails record month

Paymentshield has claimed that it had its most successful month ever in September. The company’s...

The Skipton unveils three-year fixes

The Skipton Building Society is to launch a new range of intermediary-only three-year fixed...

Gross mortgage lending up 5% year-on-year

UK Finance has estimated that gross mortgage lending in September was £21.4 billion, 5%...

New 2-year deals from Atom bank

Digital Mortgages by Atom bank has reintroduced its two-year 60% and 75% LTV products. Details...

Belmont Green completes £231m securitisation

Belmont Green has completed a £231m UK mortgage-backed securitisation led by NatWest Markets and...

Lending and profits up at Metro Bank

Metro Bank has reported that during the third quarter of 2017 lending was up...

Debt ‘breathing space’ proposals outlined

The Government has announced proposals to give people in debt six weeks breathing space...

FCA investigating Equifax data hack

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that it is investigating the circumstances surrounding...
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Homebuying

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

How small and medium-sized lenders can fix the origination headache

We are constantly told that to fix the mortgage journey, we need to rip everything out and start again. That unless a lender replaces its...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like...

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The Right Mortgage appoints new head of academy

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Rebecca Egerton as head of The...
Homebuying

Stamp Duty could be holding back 300,000 home movers

Stamp Duty costs could be preventing more than 300,000 owner-occupied homes from coming to...
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National Friendly joins Primis panel

National Friendly's range of protection products are now available to advisers across the Primis...
Brokers

‘AI challenges intermediation,’ warns FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today released its long-awaited Mills Review, which sets...

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