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New self-employed deals from the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society is offering new products for the self employed, along with...

BFS unveils apprenticeship scheme

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has launched an apprenticeship scheme to find new talent for...

Phoebus Software agrees deal with Atom Bank

Phoebus Software (PSL) and Atom Bank have signed a five year contract to work...

Hope Capital completes its largest loan

Hope Capital has completed a £3.9m loan on a student residential scheme in Stoke...

ABI signs up to Women in Finance Charter

The Association of British Insurers has signed up to the Women in Finance Charter...

Virgin Money to pay retention proc fees

Virgin Money has unveiled its new mortgage retention platform which allows intermediaries to provide...

There are Brexit opportunities, claims Stonebridge Group

Stonebridge Group has called on mortgage and protection advisers to focus on the post-EU...

The Hinckley & Rugby adds interest-only options

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is now offering an interest-only payment option across...

New fixed rates from Mortgage Trust

Mortgage Trust has launched a range of 16 new products including two, three and...

Together hires retail division chief

Specialist lender Together has appointed former CEO of Harrods Bank, Peter Ball, as chief...

EXCLUSIVE: rebrand for specialist distributor

Brilliant Solutions has announced the rebranding of its business, the latest part in the distributor's transformation over...

FHL unveils new introducer portal

Foundation Home Loans has announced the launch of the first stage of its online proposition...

New book outlines state’s challenges ahead

Academics, parliamentarians and leading industry figures have contributed to a new publication, outlining the...

NAEA welcomes Welsh LTT collection change

The Welsh Government has new powers to collect Land Transaction Tax receipts. Mark Hayward, managing...

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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