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Profits up at Barclays

Barclays has reported group pre-tax profits of £6.065 billion, up 32% on 2009's figure...

Home & Legacy boosts new business

Home & Legacy has announced an increase in sales across its whole product portfolio,...

First-time buyer woes highlighted

Rightmove inaugural First-Time Buyer Report of 2011 has found that the proportion of buyers...

Major increase in online debt counselling enquiries

Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) has reported a significant rise in the number of...

Brokers prove their worth to first-time buyers

Intermediaries remain crucial to the mortgage market, being responsible for introducing two-thirds of first-time...

Reasons to choose home reversion (part one)

The top reason why a customer opts for a home reversion plan is to...

Intrinsic signs up with Largemortgageloans.com

Largemortgageloans.com has announced a new agreement with Intrinsic Financial Services to deliver its large...

Brokers back Kensington’s buy-to-let move

Over three-quarters of brokers responding to a BestAdvice.net poll said they expected Kensington to...

Sesame offering two-deal FSCS levy payment option

Sesame has moved to give members the option of spreading Financial Services Compensation Scheme...

Tenet advisers select award winners

Zurich UK Life has won the Provider of the Year award following a survey...

FSA withdraws permissions over RMAR failings

The FSA has told three firms it is cancelling its Part IV permissions. Active Mortgage...

Scottish private economy returns to growth

While the Scottish private sector economy returned to growth during the first month of...

Rental properties being snapped up more quickly

Countrywide has reported that UK private rental properties are being let within 15 days...

Only 40,600 transactions in January

There were further falls in house prices in January, according to the latest LSL...

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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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