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Paradigm bolsters lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added the Cambridge Building Society to its lender panel for...

Nationwide sees large monthly rise in consumer confidence

Nationwide's Consumer Confidence Index rose by 11 points in May, one of the biggest...

New features and functionality for The Key

Mortgage Brain is rolling out a new version of The Key. The latest iteration of...

Mortgages for Business develops BTL calculator

Specialist commercial broker Mortgages for Business has designed a buy-to-let mortgage calculator. It calculates borrowing...

Retail banking to be ring-fenced

George Osborne will tell high streets banks tonight that they must ring-fence their retail...

Surveyors want FSA action over lender valuation ‘advice’

The Council of the Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) wants an investigation into lenders...

Blemain boost for Norton Broker Services

Norton Broker Services has reported that May was its best month for completions with...

Y3S expands secured loan panel

Y3S Loans has announced that it has added Central Lending to its panel. The Cardiff-based...

CML expects &quotmuted&quot summer for completions

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has warned that there could be a lull...

Moneysupermarket.com sounds warning over rising fees

Moneysupermarket.com has claimed analysis shows that fees for fixed and tracker mortgage products have...

OFT threatens debt firms with enforcement following new guidance

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published further guidance for the debt management...

Buy-to-let confidence heightens

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) has claimed that intermediaries are more upbeat about the future...

Clear PPI backlog by paying up, banks told

Which? has called for other banks to follow Barclays' decision to pay up all...

NACFB consults members on upfront fees

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has welcomed the Office of Fair...

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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