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Average UK household debt is £57,697

Total UK personal debt at the end of February 2011 stood at £1,454 billion,...

Paradigm adds Aldermore to panels

Aldermore's range of residential and buy-to-let products are available with immediate effect to both...

Omnii Solutions appoints head of sales

Simon Baker has joined Omnii Solutions as its head of sales. He joins the mortgage...

Barclays tops complaint charts

Barclays Bank Plc had the largest number of complaints made against it during the...

New look for the Cambridge

The Cambridge Building Society has unveiled its new branding. The mutual, which has been operating...

Lloyds appoints branch sale advisers

Lloyds Banking Group has appointed J.P. Morgan and Citigroup as joint financial advisers on...

New chief exec for Royal London

Royal London has appointed Phil Loney as group chief executive. He joins from Lloyds Banking...

Rise in mutuals’ mortgage lending

Mortgages worth £1.7 billion were approved by building societies in February, according to their...

Target fills client services role

Target Group has appointed Dominic Mehta as its client services manager. He joins the financial...

Aldermore raises buy-to-let property limit

Aldermore has increased the maximum number of properties it will accept on residential buy-to-let...

Skipton increases higher LTV options

Skipton Building Society has expanded its higher LTV mortgage range. The new products include two,...

CCCS worried about impending debt crisis

Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) is concerned that rising unemployment and high inflation will...

LBG reveals targets for complaints

Lloyds Banking Group has set the target of a 20% reduction in customer complaints. Group...

Northern Rock to shed another 680 jobs

Northern Rock is looking to cut its workforce by 680 by the end of...

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...

Latest news

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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