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Secured loans now faster following cooling-off cull

The implementation of the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) has led to increased competitiveness for...

Paradigm launches group risk panel

Paradigm Protect has launched a Group Risk panel for the benefit of its member...

Mortgage Brain “delighted” with secured sourcing response

Mortgage Brain has claimed that LoansBrain, its new secured loans sourcing system, has seen...

FSE to hold Birmingham event

Front Events has revealed that it is to hold a brand new event, FSE...

Coventry for Intermediaries unveils 10yr fixed offset

Coventry for Intermediaries has launched a range of 10-year fixed rate mortgages at 65%...

New fee-free options for Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has launched fee-free mortgage options at 65% LTV, with added incentives. The intermediary-only...

New secured loan packager to launch

London Money Group is to launch into the second charge mortgage market under the brand...

BFS grows its Birmingham business funding

SME funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has increased its funding to Birmingham businesses by...

Significant fall in rate of personal insolvencies

The UK’s rate of personal insolvencies dropped by 18% as towns in the North...

P2P provider appoints Target

Target Group has been appointed to provide standby servicing to Ratesetter, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform....

Rate cuts from the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society is making rate reductions for three of its mortgage products. Changes to...

Engaged CRM completes Twenty7Tec sourcing integration

Engaged CRM, which provides CRM solutions to the finance, mortgage, secured loan and bridging intermediary...

FHL hits 95% completion rate before SDLT deadline

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has reported that over 94% of packaged cases received by...

Tesco Mortgage Intermediaries launches

Tesco Bank has launched its new intermediary service – Tesco Mortgage Intermediaries – with London...

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

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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