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FCA takes action against lender of last resort

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has taken its first criminal action against an individual...

Positive Commercial Finance helps exporter

Positive Commercial Finance has arranged a funding facility through Lloyds Bank for Concept Chemicals, which...

Shawbrook expands residential mortgages sales team

Shawbrook Bank has grown its residential mortgages team within the property finance division, appointing two...

L&G appoints retail retirement boss

Legal & General has announced the appointment of Chris Knight as managing director, Legal...

Precise takes different ICR approach for buy-to-let

Precise Mortgages has put its buy-to-let calculator online so that brokers can see how...

The Skipton cuts new build rates

The Skipton Building Society has made rate reductions of up to 0.84 percentage points on its new...

Twenty7Tec improves further advance sourcing

Twenty7Tec has made improvements to its MortgageSource system, that will enable brokers to compare...

Possible shift to rate rises

Recent predictions about possible mortgage rate rises could be starting to crystallise, according to...

Connells: “great December” for housing market

Connells Survey & Valuation has reported that December’s activity in the UK’s housing market was up...

New hires for Aldermore

Aldermore has appointed a new field-based residential relationship manager and a business development manager...

Connect for Intermediaries expands packager panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added the Family Building Society to its packaging lender panel. The...

Largemortgageloans.com increases Guernsey presence

Paul Welch, the founder of Largemortgageloans.com has moved back to Guernsey and increased lending options on the...

SimplyBiz Mortgages offers older borrower exclusives

SimplyBiz Mortgages has introduced a range of older borrower exclusives with the Marsden Building...

Hutchings promoted at Uinsure

General insurance provider Uinsure has promoted two team members. Mark Hutchings, previously national account manager...

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Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

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The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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