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Libor review begins reform consultation

The independent review into Libor has published a discussion paper. In the paper, Martin Wheatley,...

Funding Circle breaks the million-a-week mark

Funding Circle is now lending on average over £1 million per week. The online lending...

Win gadgets with Canada Life

Canada Life Group Insurance is offering advisers the chance to win one of a...

Post Office cuts rates

The Post Office is reducing its rates by up to 0.40 percentage points on...

Incoming Barclays chairman revealed

Sir David Walker has been appointed as a non-executive director of Barclays with effect...

July lending makes up for poor June figures

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv chartered surveyors has reported a 12% increase in...

Rents continue to rise

There has been a 4% increase in the cost of renting a home over...

Half a million pound fine for payday lender

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed a £544,505 financial penalty on the...

L&G outlines post-RDR legacy product rules

Legal & General has provided details for its post-RDR adviser charging rules for individual...

New first-time buyer deal from NatWest

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has unveiled a new first-time buyer purchase mortgage in its current...

Brokers offered own loss adjustment service

DAS is offering mortgage brokers their own loss adjustor to process their side of...

Buy-to-let growth continues

There was a second quarter rise in buy-to-let lending of 5%, the Council of...

FSA takes action against City Gate

The FSA has publicly censured City Gate Money Managers Limited and banned its director...

Fall in second charge repossessions

Repossessions made by second-charge mortgage providers were down by 37.21% in the second quarter...

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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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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