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CML chairman calls for innovation

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) chairman Martijn Van der Heijden has called for...

Legal & General in new partnership with First Trust Bank

Legal & General and First Trust Bank has agreed a 'long term' joint distribution...

The Leeds unveils new 10-year fix

Leeds Building Society has launched a new 10-year fixed rate mortgage available up to...

May rise in rents

Rents rose for a second consecutive month last month, according to the latest Buy-to-Let...

Canada Life Group Insurance expands protection offering

Canada Life Group Insurance has introduced an additional service from Best Doctors as part...

Oakwood achieves success with non-performing portfolios

Mortgage servicer Oakwood Global Finance LLP has claimed to have frequently achieved the collection...

NatWest opens corporate range to DA clubs

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has widened the selection mortgages that directly authorised (DA) firms have...

Virgin Money cuts Northern Rock rates

Virgin Money has cut interest rates across a number of its mortgage products. The...

Olympics to distort mortgage market, says CML

Gross mortgage lending in May was an estimated £12.2 billion, the Council of Mortgage...

New Flexible Offset maximum loan size from AFI

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) is increasing the maximum loan size on its Flexible Offset...

Mansion House proposals could be ‘game changer’: Boulger

Ray Boulger of mortgage adviser John Charcol believes that the policy actions announced by...

Inflation dents millionaire lifestyle

Over the past 20 years, inflation has downgraded the lifestyle that £1 million can...

Strong growth in assets under management at MetLife UK

MetLife has passed the £2.5 billion assets under management landmark. Based on current product...

SME owners consider quitting

In the past five years 46% of all small business owners have seriously considered...

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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