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Virgin Money cuts 65% LTV intermediary rates

Virgin Money has cut interest rates on a number of residential 65% LTV mortgage...

CML: fall in home purchase lending

House purchase lending to home-buyers fell month-on-month in November totalling 55,600 loans, according to...

New mortgage lender launches

Pepper UK Limited has launched mortgage lender Pepper Homeloans into the UK market. A...

SMEs avoiding insurance despite increased turnover

New research by LV= Broker reveals that 75% of SMEs improved or maintained their...

The Leeds backs Scottish HTB scheme

The Leeds Building Society has signalled its support for the Scottish Government’s new HTB...

Brokers still being turned down by high street lenders

Developers are still turning to brokers for help having been turned down for funding...

Businesses see 30% rise in debt from late payment of bills

Lovetts has warned that the amount of debt a typical UK business is facing...

Smart Money hires business development head

Smart Money has appointed Steve Pollard to the newly created role of head of...

Paymentshield promoting its improved proposition

GI provider Paymentshield is encouraging advisers to plug in to its 'enhanced' Home Insurance...

The Source preferred partner for Right Mortgage and Protection

Source Insurance has joined the general insurance panel of The Right Mortgage and Protection. Although...

ONS: 10% year-on-year growth in UK house prices

UK house prices increased by 10.0% in the year to November 2014, down from...

Sharp fall in CPI measure of inflation

The consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation in the UK halved last month...

APFA launches 2015 regional seminar series

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has published details of its 2015 regional...

The Nationwide to cut 10-year rates

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting tomorrow (14 January) selected 10-year fixed rates for...
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Conveyancing

The UK’s conveyancing conundrum explained

Why is conveyancing so slow in the UK? The average property transaction now takes between 14 and 20 weeks… and that is not taking...

The silent majority: what most financial services customers never tell you

If you work in financial services, you probably have a good handle on formal complaints. You know how many you get, how quickly they’re...

Building momentum is back, but flexible funding will be key to delivery

There are growing signs that development activity across England is beginning to gather momentum again. After a prolonged period of caution driven by higher...

ANALYSIS: Swaps surge and the market braces for impact

It’s been an interesting week so far. Sadly, we’ve had to cancel our BDM meetings, because if we’re being honest, everyone in the market...

The growth is there. Now we must close the gap

The latest UK Finance Later Life Lending Update for Q4 2025 should give every specialist adviser renewed confidence in the scale and resilience of...

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Regulation

New platform aims to ease advisers’ compliance burden during client meetings

A new meeting platform designed for mortgage advisers has launched in the UK, aiming...
Appointments

PEXA hires Julian Wells as UK head of communications

Digital property exchange platform PEXA has appointed Julian Wells as its new UK head...
Comment

Market may be overreacting to conflict-driven rate fears

Financial markets could be overreacting in the early days of the conflict as they...
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St. James’s Place passes 1,000 female adviser milestone ahead of International Women’s Day

St. James’s Place has revealed that more than 1,000 women are now working as...

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