News

New 65% and 85% LTV deals from the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society is tomorrow (25 January) launching a new range of mortgages at 65%...

BFS expands Midlands corporate team

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Chris Sygrove and Jonathan Myerscough as corporate managers...

ASTL revises Code of Conduct

Members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has voted to alter up its Code...

Scottish Widows removes early exit pension fees

Scottish Widows has removed early exit fees across its personal pension policies, enabling customers...

Aldermore alters self-employed criteria

Aldermore is to reduce the minimum accounts a self-employed borrower must provide when applying...

New protection offering from Mortgage Intelligence

The Mortgage Intelligence network has revamped its protection proposition. Available to both Appointed Representatives and Directly...

60% of SMEs prioritise Germany for trade

Germany is overwhelmingly seen as the most important country to the economy by UK...

Source helps brokers to take on comparison websites

Source Insurance has launched a new range of exclusive integration options designed to empower intermediaries to...

MCI Mortgage Club hires BDM

MCI Mortgage Club has appointed Mamie Bradshaw as its new business development manager (BDM).   The...

Major funding for digital mortgage broker

Digital mortgage broker Habito has raised £5.5m in Series A funding led by Silicon...

Accord cuts selected fixed rates

Accord Mortgages has reduced rates on a range of fixed rate mortgages by up...

L&G updates mortgage club BTL matrix

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its Buy to Let Matrix to include...

Two-fifths of tenants not looking to buy

In a survey of 1,000 tenants whose deposits are registered with the Deposit Protection Service...

Paradigm awards lenders and providers

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the third-yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

COMMENT

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

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The West Brom promotes Gareth Madeley to chief customer officer

West Brom Building Society has appointed Gareth Madeley as its new chief customer officer,...

Industry leaders unite behind MIMHC Lunch

HSBC UK, Virgin Money, Nottingham Building Society, Landbay and top broker firms Mortgage Advice...

Santander raises foreign national mortgage lending to 90% LTV

Santander UK has expanded its foreign national mortgage policy by increasing the maximum loan-to-value...

Keystone passes £2bn in securitisation issuance with sixth Hops Hill deal

Keystone Property Finance has completed its sixth securitisation, taking total issuance under its Hops...

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