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Broker fined and banned for insurance fraud

The FSA has fined John Folan £195,117 for insurance fraud and prohibited him from...

Remember to run background checks: NLA

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has reminding landlords to carry out background checks on...

AFI changes rates and adds 5-year deal for FTBs

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) changing selected rates at 60%, 70% and 75% LTV across...

Crystal Mortgages promises auction offer within four hours

Crystal Mortgages has launched Auction Finance Special, a new service which it claims will...

Make-up of new IMLA board revealed

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced its 2012 executive board. Following its Annual...

Virgin Money to buy Northern Rock

Virgin Money is to buy Northern Rock for an initial outlay of £747 million. The...

New low for consumer confidence

Consumer confidence continued to fall in October, the Nationwide Building Society has reported. According to...

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation becomes NACFB patron

Lancashire Mortgage Corporation has become a patron of the National Association of Commercial Finance...

Accord unveils &’039low fee&’039 85% LTV deals

Accord Mortgages has launched a new range of low-fee 85% LTV products for borrowers...

Saffron BS provides funding line for Masthaven

Masthaven Bridging Finance has entered into a facility agreement with Saffron Building Society. The mutual...

CML wants extension of FTB stamp duty concession

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) is urging the government to announce a reprieve...

Apps down by almost 10%: MAB

Mortgage applications were down by 9.4% in October, according to the latest National Mortgage...

FTBs increasingly resourceful in deposit-raising

Santander Mortgages research has highlighted the lengths aspiring first time buyers are going to...

Precise Mortgages to launch north of the border

Precise Mortgages is making its complete product range available in Scotland on Friday 18...

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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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