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BFS appoints UK risk director

Bibby Financial Services has appointed Ray Lowrey as UK risk director. First joining the business funder...

ASTL reveals 2016 conference details

ASTL’s annual conference to tackle lending in an uncertain world The Association of Short Term...

Committee questions further P2P regulation

Andrew Tyrie MP, chairman of the parliamentary Treasury Committee, has written to Tracey McDermott,...

Landlords moving towards HMOs

Mortgages for Business research has found that 28% of those looking to expand their...

The Nationwide cuts fixed rate deals

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting a number of fixed rate mortgages at up to 75 per...

Optimum Credit now on a sourcing system

Mortgage Brain has revealed that second charge provider Optimum Credit has decided to allow...

New professional deals from Paragon

Paragon Mortgages has updated its professional buy-to-let product range, including the addition of six...

V Loans boosts bridging team

V Loans has appointed a business development manager and a case manager to its...

Kent Reliance to pay product transfer proc fee

Kent Reliance has unveiled its ‘Choices’ product transfer scheme that pays a procuration fee for brokers,...

Multimillion pound fine for CT Capital

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined CT Capital Ltd £2,360,900 for serious failings...

The Skipton removes FTB max loan size cap

The Skipton Building Society and its intermediary lending arm, Skipton Intermediaries, have removed their maximum...

The Ipswich cuts rates for mortgage misfits

The Ipswich Building Society has cut rates for nine of its mortgage products, available to...

Nationwide: house prices up slightly

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that UK house prices edged up 0.2% in...

Brightstar launches EasySource

Brightstar has officially launched its new sourcing system, EasySource, today. The system, which took two...
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COMMENT

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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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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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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...
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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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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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