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Precise alters criteria

Precise Mortgages has made changes to its criteria on buy-to-let and near prime mortgages. ...

IMLA to get chair from mainstream bank

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders' Association (IMLA) has revealed that David Finlay, managing director for...

AFI offers seven-day broker special

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) is tomorrow (23 November) launching an intermediary seven day special...

Pink revamps DA offering

Pink is relaunching its proposition to directly authorised (DA) mortgage and protection advisers. It includes...

Remortgaging continued to grow last month

Remortgaging now accounts for 31% of gross lending, according to LMS analysis of Council...

Advisers not in position to help clients with equity release

Almost 90% of intermediaries say equity release is relevant to their clients retirement planning,...

The Chelsea offers offset facility to FTBs

Chelsea Building Society has launched a new first time buyer mortgage. The new mortgage range...

Lead Co-op plans expansion

Lead Co-op has announced that it is taking on more advisers and affiliates. ...

Gender neutral pricing now at L&G

Legal & General has moved to gender neutral pricing. This means all individual protection products...

Virgin Money cuts resi rates and adds new BTL deals

Virgin Money is tomorrow (22 November) cutting a number of interest rates in its...

Openwork app now available for Android

Openwork has launched a new version of its protection app enabling advisers to obtain...

PruProtect appoints underwriting director

Darren Lee is joining PruProtect as director of underwriting and claims. He joins the protection...

LV= outlines gender directive policy

LV= has published details as to how it will deal with amendments to protection...

Property investment bosses disqualified from being directors

A husband and wife team who were directors of a property investment company in...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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Financial confidence masks widespread gaps in money knowledge, study finds

A growing disconnect between perceived financial confidence and actual understanding is leaving many UK...

Principal firms lead self-employed recruitment growth at Just Mortgages

Recruitment figures from Just Mortgages show that the majority of self-employed advisers brought into...

New podcast aimed at advisers navigating mortgage and wealth convergence

Twenty7tec has launched a new podcast series designed to support advisers as mortgage and...

Gen H expands into Scotland with affordability-led income booster

Residential mortgage lender Gen H has launched in Scotland, extending its lending proposition north...

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