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Advisers should highlight protected equity guarantees

External factors are bridging about innovation in the equity release market, More 2 Life...

Clients don’t believe in income protection

60% of advisers believe income protection is difficult to sell because clients don’t think...

Crystal behind boutique hotel refurb

Crystal Mortgages has completed a £1 million refinance package for a boutique hotel in...

Farmers jeopardising future success of their business

44% of UK farmers have no formal succession plan in place for when they...

New fixed rates from the Leeds

Leeds Building Society has introduced a new five-year fixed rate mortgage at 3.89%. It...

Mortgages Mortgages a no-no for FSA

Choon Hee Patrick Tan, trading as Mortgages Mortgages, has had his Part IV Permission...

Renters struggling to save to buy a home

Saving to buy a home while renting is looking like a less reliable route...

Rate rises behind remortgage advice searches

Searches for remortgage advice increased to 35% of all whole of market mortgage enquiries...

Connells Group joins AMI

The Connells Group has become a member of the Association of Mortgage...

InterBay Commercial acquired by OneSavings Bank plc.

InterBay Commercial has agreed to sell the entire issued share capital of the InterBay...

Paragon acquires more RBS loans

The Paragon Group of Companies has acquired further unsecured consumer loans, through its Idem...

Aldermore strengthens invoice finance team

Fozia Riaz has joined Aldermore Invoice Finance’s regional sales team in Yorkshire as a...

West One reveals Vegas competition winners

West One Loans has announced the winners of its competition for 10 brokers to...

Consumer credit grows for fourth month in a row

April was the fourth consecutive month of overall year-on-year growth in consumer credit provided...

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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