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The Leeds cuts offset rates

Leeds Building Society has cut the rates on its two-year discount offset mortgage by...

HSBC fined £10.5m for inappropriate advice to elderly customers

The FSA has issued its largest ever retail fine of £10.5 million to HSBC...

London market to tail off in second half of 2012

An estate agent has predicted that next year the London property market will see...

LV= widens online valuation facility

LV= has upgraded its online valuation service. This means that advisers can now offer clients...

New specialist structured finance team at Aldermore

Aldermore has unveiled a team of experienced financial professionals to put together "flexible and...

Knight bats aways bonus bashing

British Bankers' Association (BBA) chief executive Angela Knight says ongoing disputes over the "emotive...

Women saving more than men

Halifax's customers in southern England are outsaving those in northern regions by almost 13%,...

Will the Autumn Statement plans work?

The Autumn Statement initiatives should be given a cautious welcome, writes Steven Nicholas, chief...

Property to weather economic storm?

63% of those surveyed by Rightmove expect house prices to be the same or...

FSCS strengthens board

The FSA has appointed Paul Stockton as non&shy-executive director to the board of the...

Aviva promotes group risk protection with new site

Aviva has launched Letstalkgrouprisk.co.uk to help advisers understand how group risk benefits can bring...

L&G chooses TrigoldCrystal as sole mortgage data provider

TrigoldCrystal has been selected as the exclusive provider of mortgage data to Legal and...

HML shortlisted for global business gong

HML is one of half a dozen European companies to be short-listed as a...

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation racks up quarter of a century in business

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation has reached a significant milestone as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. The...

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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