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Bank Rate cut likely today

The Bank of England is likely to cut interest rates to record lows when its Monetary...

Brits dreaming of their own business

More than 1.3 million Britons are thinking about starting their own business in the next 12 months,...

TMA unveils new protection panel

TMA Mortgage Club has launch a new flat rate protection panel, TMA Plateau. It means...

Stonebridge staff raise £10k for Macmillan

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has revealed that its staff has raised £10,000...

CML: mortgage market regaining some equilibrium

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that home-owners borrowed £9.4bn for house purchase,...

FSE London registration begins

Registration to attend the Financial Services Expo (FSE) London is now open. The event will take...

FCA fines Towergate and former director

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Towergate Underwriting Group £2,632,000 for failings in...

Over 60s finding more retirement income than expected

Almost one-third of the UK’s recently retired over 60s population have found themselves with...

CSF appoints key account manager

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has appointed Dan Morris as key account manager and has...

eMoov unveils identity verification option

Estate agent eMoov.co.uk is now offering Veridu, an identity verification option for both its...

Insurance industry facing ‘customer expectation challenge’

Target Group's latest whitepaper Myth v Reality: The Expectation Gap in the UK Insurance Industry has found that...

Increase in growth of BTL product numbers slows

Buy-to-let product numbers grew more slowly in the second quarter of 2016 compared to...

Openwork passes 3,000 adviser mark

Openwork has revealed that it has exceeded 3,000 advisers across the group for the first...

Tesco unveils new 95% LTV intermediary offering

Tesco Bank is launching a new intermediary mortgage product range on 14 July which will now...

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

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...

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...

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

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

Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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