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Castle Trust completes first Express Service loan

Castle Trust has completed the first loan under its new Express Service in two...

Zurich returns to Source household panel

Source Insurance has announced the return of Zurich to its household panel. The bedroom rated...

Vida Homeloans begins ‘test and learn’ pilot

New specialist intermediary lender Vida Homeloans has embarked upon a pre-launch lending pilot in...

Paymentshield improves emergency and legal cover

Paymentshield has launched upgrades to its home emergency and legal expenses cover following  the appointment of...

Aviva fined £8.2m over outsourcing failures

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Aviva Pension Trustees UK and Aviva Wrap...

Tesco Bank lending up 11.6%

Tesco Bank has reported a pre-tax profit (before exceptional items) of £89m for the...

SortRefer offer introducers workplace pension solutions

Online referral service SortRefer has launched a new facility which allows intermediaries access to...

Couples failing to talk about retirement finance

Just 32% of people over the age of 40 who live with their spouse...

Pepper unveils five-year fixes

Pepper Homeloans has launched a range of five-year residential fixed rates for borrowers who...

IHT to hit home for 585,000 UK millionaires in 2020

NFU Mutual has calculated there was a 27% rise in the number of millionaires...

The Mansfield partners with Mortgage Intelligence

The Mansfield Building Society has been added to the Mortgage Intelligence panel of lenders....

First Complete holding UK forums this month

First Complete is hosting 15 mortgage forums across the UK during October. The network will...

New residential and BTL deals from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on residential and buy-to-let mortgages. A...

Promise reports “best ever month”

Promise Specialist Lending has revealed that its September second charge completions were up more than...

COMMENT

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect and will shortly be choosing the colour scheme of No...

A week of progress and reassurance

The past week has brought further reassurance for borrowers. With the Bank of England holding the base rate as expected and inflation remaining steady...

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

Government support is fundamental to market growth

We’ve seen another week of mainstream lenders reduce their rates with more reductions predicted this coming week. This shows more comfort and confidence around...

Bridging is a natural fit for a Shariah-compliant bridging provider

The UK bridging market is, in many ways, a natural fit for Shariah-compliant finance because both are fundamentally built around real assets, partnership structures...

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Fintel chair and TMG chief rescue Rotherham United Women

Rotherham United Women Football Club has been rescued from the brink of extinction after...

Just Mortgages hires new area director for self-employed division

Just Mortgages has appointed Claire Jopson as area director within its self-employed division, with...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect...

HSBC cuts rates across residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

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