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Dragonfly acquires Maslow Capital

Dragonfly Property Finance has acquired specialist mezzanine lender Maslow Capital in what is says...

JC Flowers makes further cash injection into OneSavings Bank

OneSavings Bank Plc, the bank created from the JC Flowers investment into Kent Reliance...

Insurance broker &’039guarantees to beat&’039 commercial premiums

Property insurance wholesale broker Keelan Westall has launched its 'Guarantee to beat'. It 'guarantees' to...

Kids&’039 costs forcing women to delay retirement

Over a quarter of working women in their 50s are delaying retirement to support...

First direct espouses overpayment from lodger income

First direct has launched a range of new offset mortgage rates. The direct bank...

Blemain Group improves HR processes

Blemain Group has invested in an integrated IT system, Cascade HR. The business now employs...

Central Trust improves criteria through Norton Broker Services

Norton Broker Services has announced changes to Central Trust's lending criteria. The maximum secured loan...

New group sales head appointed by Sesame Bankhall

Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed David Kafetz as head of group sales. He has 30...

Assurant Intermediary outlines new webinar schedule

Assurant Intermediary has announced the new schedule for its regular free weekly training webinars...

Slight increase in rate of personal debt growth

Total UK personal debt at the end of July 2011 stood at £1,451 billion,...

Emergency savings main alternative to protection

66% of IFAs believe their clients who do not currently have protection products in...

Woolwich unveils new offset mortgages

Barclays has launched a new range of Woolwich offset mortgages. It includes a two-year offset...

House prices down 0.6%

House prices fell by 0.6% in August, the Nationwide Building Society has reported. The average...

MAB ditches Trigold for The Core

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) is switching its mortgage sourcing software requirements to The Core,...

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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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