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Mortgage Brain migrates to cloud platform

Mortgage Brain has selected NaviSite Europe as its cloud services partner. Mortgage Brain is...

Annual pension contributions on the rise

The total amount contributed annually by UK individuals into their pensions has increased by...

Smart Money in Scotland completes first case with UTB

Smart Money has completed its first case with United Trust Bank, following the lender's...

Normality returning to Scottish housing market

Your Move and Acadata have reported an increase of 0.9% in house prices in...

TFC hires key account manager for the north

TFC Homeloans has recruited Wayne Bowler as key account manager for the north of...

The Leeds appoints intermediary distribution head

The Leeds Building Society has announced the appointment of a new head of intermediary...

CSF sees 127% rise in completions

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) issued terms on £509.7m worth of business from April to...

Brokers still confident about buy-to-let’s future

Brokers in Scotland are more confident about the future of the buy-to-let market compared...

UTB joins Funding for Lending Scheme

United Trust Bank (UTB) has joined the Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme...

Secure Trust Bank posts £129m profit

Secure Trust Bank PLC has reported total group profit after tax of £129.1m for...

Annual house price rise of 13.6% in London

The Land Registry's May data shows an annual price increase of 8.1% which takes...

Equity release market on track to exceed £2bn for first time

Retired homeowners cashed in more than £934 million of property wealth in the first...

Asset based funders “best placed” to support SMEs

The boss of the UK’s largest independent invoice finance company, Bibby Financial Services (BFS),...

DM Hall appoints new associate

Felicity Forbes Davidson has been promoted to Associate at DM Hall, one of Scotland’s...
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COMMENT

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...

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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...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...

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