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New member for the Monetary Policy Committee

George Osborne has announced the appointment of Michael Saunders as an external member of...

National recognition for Stonebridge ARs

Advisers from appointed representative (AR) firms of Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network,...

Pensioner landlords relying on BTL

72% of pensioners who have an investment property said they would struggle to make...

Mike Rogers to stand down as LV= chief exec

Mike Rogers has told the board of LV= that he intends to step down as...

New board appointments at Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has announced the appointment of Sharon Marshall and Suzanne Green to its...

Key promotion at Ultimate Finance

Ultimate Finance has announced that Richard Waldman has been promoted to group sales director...

AToM partners with Kensington

All Types of Mortgages Ltd, (AToM) has announced a new relationship with Kensington Mortgages. Dale Jannels,...

TSB cuts BTL and residential rates

TSB is reducing rates on a range of buy-to-let and residential mortgages. Landlords will benefit...

UTB offers new residential improvement loans

United Trust Bank has introduced a new flexible 'Residential Property Improvement Loans' product, aimed...

Vizolution unveils new video and telephony solution

Vizolution has launched a new video and telephony solution - vVid - that is...

L&G extends its Build to Rent pipeline

Legal & General Capital (LGC) and Dutch pension fund manager, PGGM, are to build...

No surprises from the MPC

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

The Mortgage Lender available to five clubs

The Mortgage Lender has revealed that its products will be available to members of...

New five-year fixes from Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a new range of five-year fixed residential mortgages from...

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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