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Brightstar reveals EasySource launch date

Brightstar has announced that its specialist sourcing system and case management tool, EasySource, will...

Belmont Green to use Vida Homeloans brand

Belmont Green, the self-styled 'challenger mortgage lender', has confirmed it has trademarked the Vida...

Industry rides to raise £71k for Magic Moments

The Magic Moments Charity raised over £71,000 last month as a result of its...

Equiniti partners with Ocean Finance

Equiniti is to provide its broking technology to Intelligent Lending, operating under the Ocean Finance brand. ...

Consumers “unaware of alternative finance offering”

Research from Together found that almost a half of those surveyed believed that credit rating would...

London equity release loans up 12%

Homeowners in London have released an average of almost £150,000 from their properties to...

OSB posts Q1 trading update

OneSavings Bank plc has reported that net loans and advances grew by £460m during...

UK steel threat could worsen repossession figures

HML has stated that repossession rates for UK homes will remain low so far...

Interest-only fuelling equity release rise

Key Retirement has reported a significant increase in sales of lump sum equity release...

OneFamily’s lifetime mortgages launch

OneFamily has revealed that the two new lifetime mortgage products announced last month have now gone...

Secured lenders back Y3S’s golf day

Packager Y3S is holding its third annual Golf Day on Thursday 7 July at the Celtic Manor...

Paradigm produces buy-to-let factsheet

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published an adviser factsheet on the recent developments and forthcoming changes...

LGMC unveils second charge direct proposition

Legal & General Mortgage Club (LGMC) is launching a direct-to-lender proposition for second charge...

Trio of lenders integrate with APAC’s mortgage software

Precise Mortgages, Shawbrook Bank and Together have become the first three lenders to begin to...

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...

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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...

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...

The Buckinghamshire launches new discounted rate range

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new discounted rate mortgage range, giving brokers greater...

Norton Home Loans completes first MAB case after lender panel appointment

Norton Home Loans has completed its first case with Mortgage Advice Bureau since joining...

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