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Defaqto offers business protection guide

Defaqto has published its latest guide for advisers, exploring the business protection market.  It argues that business...

The Mortgage Lender hires head of sales

The Mortgage Lender has appointed Paula Priest, a former sales and relationship manager with...

Identity tweak for Keystone

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has changed its name to Keystone Property Finance. The...

New offsets from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society has launched a new fee-free offset range. All mortgages in...

Majority of advisers unhappy with retirement solutions

MetLife has found that only one in five advisers are satisfied with the current...

Halifax: rise in annual house price growth

The Halifax has reported that house prices in the first three months of 2016...

Profits up at the Co-op group

The Co-op Group has reported an increase in underlying pre-tax profits to £81m from...

New fixed rates from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society has launched a new range of two and five-year fixed rate residential mortgages...

Call for re-levelling of disclosure playing field

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has called for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

“Time for DAs to decide” over seconds route

Master broker Clever Lending says it is still seeing a number of Directly Authorised...

Higher property values for equity release referral customers

Customers referred to specialist equity release brokers by other advisers have significantly higher house...

Ageas falls foul of ad watchdog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld two complaints made against Ageas Retail Ltd (trading as RIAS). A...

The Mansfield extends maximum age

The Mansfield Building Society has extended the maximum age on its otw-year discounted rate product...

FTBs making common insurance mistakes

Research from The Co-operative Insurance has revealed the common insurance pitfalls first time buyers...
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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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