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Masthaven Secured Loans hires Paul Brett

Paul Brett has joined Masthaven Secured Loans (MSL) as director of sales. Brett will join...

FCA to address Financial Services Expo

Representatives from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be speaking on both days...

Vizolution publishes white paper on MMR

Vizolution has published the first in a series of white papers looking at the...

FCA green lights Avelo takeover

Australian technology provider IRESS has received regulatory approval from the FCA for its acquisition...

Record month for conveyancer

Myhomemove has reported a record August, completing 3938 cases in just 22 working days,...

Broker Conveyancing to improve online platform

Broker Conveyancing is to unveil an upgrade to its online platform for users at...

Saffron For Intermediaries pulls Special Situations products

Saffron For Intermediaries has withdrawn its existing mortgage range. Peter Izard, head of mortgages...

The Leeds offers 95% LTV exclusive

LSL Property Services Group and Leeds Building Society have launched an exclusive 95% LTV...

CHL reveals level of complaints

Specialist lender CHL Mortgages has released its own complaints data for the first half...

Partnership appoints deputy CFO

Partnership has appointed Richard Everett as deputy chief financial officer (CFO). He will be...

Blacks Connect expands offering

Blacks Connect has added a range of new legal products and services which are...

Billion-pound milestone passed by Shawbrook

Shawbrook Bank has passed the £1 billion barrier in lending to SMEs and personal...

Smart Money Loans sees South East activity boost

Smart Money Loans has seen a sharp rise in business activity in the South...

Scotland’s private sector growth gains momentum

August's Scottish PMI survey from Bank of Scotland showed latest increases in business activity...

COMMENT

The conveyancing power of sales-ready packs

Conveyancing is stressful – and I'm not just talking about the poor customer experience. From a turnaround time of around eight weeks back in...

Cloud is not about where you host technology, it’s about how

When lenders talk about cloud, the discussion often begins – quite reasonably – with control. Where will the data sit? How will resilience be...

AI, mortgages and the human need we can’t ignore

There is lots of talk about technology with cloud-native and artificial intelligence just some of the buzzwords of today’s dinner parties and conferences. There is...

PMI – an advice gap not to be ignored

The latest figures from the ABI show insurers processed a record £4 billion in individual and workplace private medical insurance (PMI) claims in 2024,...

The self-employed boom and why traditional life cover won’t cut it

There’s a shift happening in how people work and how they buy homes - especially for the self-employed and gig economy worker. Flexibility, autonomy and...

Latest news

Inflation falls to 3% as lenders eye March rate cut

Inflation eased to 3% in the latest data release, strengthening expectations of a base...

Landlords spending up to 10 working days a month managing portfolios

Landlords are committing the equivalent of almost four working days a month to managing...

Skipton grows mortgage book to £33bn

Skipton Group increased its mortgage balances to £33.3bn in 2025, with a record 50%...

Pepper Money trims buy-to-let rates by 0.50%

Pepper Money has reduced buy-to-let rates by 0.50% across its 70%, 75% and 80%...

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