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June growth for asset finance

Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that asset finance new...

L&G offers 4.44% lifetime mortgage

Legal & General has launched a 4.44% AER Premier Flexible lifetime mortgage. It claims...

Accord reduces buy-to-let fixed rates

Accord has cut rates across its two, three and five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages...

Halifax: house prices down 1%

House prices in the three months to July were 1.6% higher than in the...

Plum deal for the Source

Source Insurance has added specialist home insurer Plum Underwriting to its online platform. The additional...

Lenders respond to MPC rate cut

A number of lenders have already reacted to the decision by the Bank of...

Tesco Bank lengthens offer validity period

Tesco Bank is extending the validity period of its formal mortgage offers for new...

Complete Mortgages joins HSBC broker panel

Guildford mortgage broker Complete Mortgages has secured access to HSBC’s broker panel. The move...

BoE cuts Bank Rate and unveils support package

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to cut the Bank Rate to...

N&P unveils 1.19% two-year deal

The Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has cut the rate on its two-year...

Seconds’ charges “still too high”

Complete FS, the South Coast based specialist lending packager, has stated that reductions in fees...

Secured loan distributor appoints FD

Fluent Money has recruited Mark Kilgannon as its new finance director. Kilgannon joins the second charge...

Brightstar moves into invoice and asset finance

Brightstar Financial has launched its invoice and asset finance offering, following a seven month...

John Malone ends Positive chairmanship

John Malone has completed his stint as non-executive chairman of Positive Lending. He spent a year as...
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COMMENT

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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...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Rate rises squeeze demand as brokers lean on ‘needs-based’ borrowers

Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand...
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Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...
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Lloyds data glitch exposed details of up to 447,936 banking customers, MPs told

Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds Banking Group were affected by a data breach...
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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...

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