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Intermediaries offered white labelled protection solution

Cavendish Online has launched a white label service aimed at providing intermediaries with a...

L&G unveils low cost home insurance product

Legal & General has launched Simply Home Insurance, a new lower cost alternative to...

AMI to fight FCA’s “unfair fees”

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has responded the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Business...

New Street partners with Mortgage Advice Bureau

New Street Mortgages has agreed a new distribution partnership with Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). All of MAB’s...

Shawbrook Commercial updates large loan process

Shawbrook Commercial has made changes to its application process for large loan transactions. "Within the commercial...

Blacks joins Precise Mortgages bridging panel

Blacks Connect has joined Precise Mortgages' short-term lending conveyancer panel. The conveyancer, part of Blacks Solicitors, already...

The Skipton unveils new intermediary-only deals

Skipton Intermediaries has introduced a new range of intermediary-only products for purchase and remortgage. The five-year...

Health/lifestyle checks key to retirement planning

More 2 Life's latest research has found that advisers think health and lifestyle checks are becoming...

Record month for Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has revealed that it completed 21 loans in one day, alongside a record month of...

The DPS and Tenant Shop team up

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) and Tenant Shop are to collaborate to “make life easier...

Paymentshield expands landlord insurance panel

Paymentshield has announced the appointment of AXA Insurance to its landlords insurance panel. AXA currently operates...

TMA to hold nationwide conferences

TMA is holding a number of mortgage roadshows for directly authorised (DA) advisers in four...

LV=: risk of pensions ‘mis-buying’ scandal

12 months on from the start of the so-called "pension freedoms", research from LV= reveals that...

The Leeds changes interest-only criteria

The Leeds Building Society has made improvements to its interest-only mortgage range. The mutual will now...

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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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

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More than half of new lifetime mortgage customers were under 70 in 2025

More than half of new lifetime mortgages arranged last year were taken out by...

StreamBank joins The Right Mortgage & Protection Network panel

StreamBank has joined The Right Mortgage & Protection Network’s lender panel, giving the network's...

Twenty7tec links LMS Select with Research platform to simplify conveyancing process

Twenty7tec has integrated LMS Select into its Research platform, aiming to streamline the journey...

LHV Bank unveils interim director of retail banking

LHV Bank has appointed Alex Beavis as interim director of retail banking as it...

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