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NACFB outlines Expo details

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers' (NACFB) Commercial Finance Expo 2012 has opened...

HML offers credit card facility to white-labelled sites

HML has added a secure online card payment facility to its white-labelled website service. This...

East beats west over yields in Midlands

Landlords in the East Midlands are getting the highest average yield across the UK,...

HSBC unveils 90% deals

HSBC has launched a new mortgage range of 90% LTV products. The bank is continuing...

Buy-to-let fixed rates down in Q4 2011

TBMC's latest Landlord Profile Tracking Index has found that average loan sizes and loan...

Management changes at Lombard

Friends Life Group has announced senior management changes at Lombard International Assurance SA, its...

Equifinance outlines proposition

New lender Equifinance, which yesterday revealed its &lta href=&quothttps://mortgagesoup.co.uk/story.php?id=22560&quot&gtarrangement with Loans Warehouse&lt/a&gt, is the...

Concern over possible changes affecting protection sector

Roger Edwards, proposition director of Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, believes the protection industry...

Shapps widens NewBuy Guarantee scheme

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has revealed that the NewBuy Guarantee scheme will also apply...

Zurich&’039s 2011 CI payments totalled £64.5m

Zurich paid out 92% of critical illness claims in 2011. Payments totalled £64.5 million. The number...

LV= slashes lifetime rates again

LV= is cutting rates on its lifetime and flexible lifetime mortgages for the second...

Loans Warehouse offers 75% LTV impaired credit seconds

Loans Warehouse has revealed Equifinance as the latest addition to its whole of market...

Bridging sourcing tool to be unveiled this month

Y3S Group is launching this month what it claims will be the UK's first...

FLA updates Lending Code

The Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) has relaunched its lending Code. The FLA Lending Code...

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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