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ABI: SMEs benefitting from trade credit insurance

Almost £36m was paid in insurance claims to small businesses last year, due to customer...

Sandbanks tops seaside house price poll

There has been a 32% rise in house prices across British seaside towns over the...

Majority expect to work in retirement

An online poll by Retiresavvy.co.uk of over 2,000 Britons has found that 59% expect to...

Target Group to be bought for £112m

Target Group, the financial services outsourcing and software provider, has been acquired by global multi-national specialist...

Gong for Ipswich BS boss

Paul Winter, CEO of Ipswich Building Society, has received an MBE from Prince Charles. ...

Virgin Money unveils HTB London deals

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

AIR Sourcing goes live

AIR Sourcing, a new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products, has gone live with...

Together funds private school venture

Together has partnered with SPF Short Term Finance (SPF) to provide funding that secured...

Two-year high for FTBs

First-time buyer activity has reached a two-year high, according to the latest First-Time Buyer Tracker...

Large majority of brokers to deal with second charges

84% of brokers surveyed by Legal & General Mortgage Club plan to include second...

NACFB outlines conference topics

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has finalised the conference timetable for...

First Complete concerned by seven-day switch proposals

First Complete has outlined its concerns over the Government’s proposed consultation on plans to allow...

TenetLime expands mortgage panel

TenetLime has expanded its whole of market mortgage panel with the addition of four...

New YBS deal “lowest” fixed rate available

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched a 1.14% two-year fixed rate mortgage, which it...

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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