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Debt collection directors disqualified

A pair of directors involved in a business providing debt collection services have been disqualified...

Mortgage Vision headline speakers revealed

Mortgage Brain has announced that the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) and Nationwide/The Mortgage...

L&G: rates unlikely to fall regardless of MPC decision

Fixed rate mortgages have fallen by an average of 2.5% since 2010, according to research...

Millennials targeted by new insurance cover

Ageas has unveiled new app-based insurance cover for 'millennials' to protect their possessions and experiences. With...

Stonebridge Group offers client e-magazine

Stonebridge Group is launching a new e-magazine to help its advisers to communicate more...

Master broker pays out under new fee model

The Loans Engine has just paid out its first loan under its new £295 application...

Precise cuts HMO and Ltd Co BTL rates

Precise Mortgages has made changes to its buy-to-let product range. HMO rates are being...

NatWest unveils £500 FTB cashback deal

NatWest has launched a number of new two and five-year fixed rate cashback mortgage deals for...

New underwriting manager at the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has appointed Paula Millard to the position of underwriting manager. She joins...

​Over 50s plan £50k ‘pension giveaway’

Over 50s are increasingly planning to hold back savings in their pension to pass...

Lending and profits up at the Principality

The Principality Building Society has posted a small increase in profits for the first...

Large rise in women’s expected retirement incomes

Women looking to retire this year expect to have the highest retirement income on record...

Aegon questions Lifetime ISA usage

Following on from the Resolution Foundation’s recent findings that home ownership is the lowest...

Five new faces for TFC Homeloans

TFC Homeloans has increased its headcount by five. The new recruits will work across...

COMMENT

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...

Latest news

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...

Finova Broker appoints Ben Radford to lead Broker Payments

Finova Broker has promoted Ben Radford to head of Finova Broker Payments, the mortgage...

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...

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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