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Electronic conveyancing forms unveiled

Legal technology firm Zylpha has launched a suite of eConveyancing forms that it claims fully...

New Street Mortgages partners with Intrinsic

New Street Mortgages has expanded its distribution to include Intrinsic Financial Services. The new agreement will see...

LendInvest pleased with development finance start

LendInvest's development finance team has now written 14 deals since launch, ranging from £400,000 to £10...

Mint Bridging partners to create syndicated division

Mint Bridging has entered into a joint venture with Mark Abrahams, a founder of...

IMLA sounds warning over Basel proposals

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that housing associations and homebuyers with...

Young and middle earners positive about Lifetime ISA

The Skipton Building Society has found that middle and high earners are most likely...

BFS makes Sheffield sales hire

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Daniel Harding as head of sales for Sheffield. The...

Invoice fraud hitting financial services hard

New research from Tungsten Businesses has suggested that financial services firms are losing more than £165...

Bower Retirement Services strengthens management team

Equity release specialist Bower Retirement Services has appointed Hannah Gray as head of operations. She will...

19% rise in remortgage equity withdrawn

LMS has reported that the total amount of equity withdrawn by remortgaging rose by...

Life & pensions sector to contribute more to FSCS

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will levy £337m in the financial year 2016/17,...

BBA: 64% year-on-year rise in mortgage lending

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has revealed that gross mortgage borrowing of £17.1 billion...

Key appointments to Together’s leadership team

Specialist lender Together has made two senior appointments to its leadership team. The group of...

Scrutiny for parliament over FCA CEO appointment

George Osborne has written to Andrew Tyrie MP, the Chairman of the Treasury Committee,...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...

Buckinghamshire cuts rates across credit repair ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore...

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