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Scottish Equitable fined £2.8m plus £60m customer redress

The FSA has fined Scottish Equitable Plc £2.8 million for causing "significant consumer detriment""...

Firm hit for trading without a CCL

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has secured a conviction against London North Securities...

New associate member at the CML

Oriel Securities has joined the Council of Mortgages Lenders (CML) as an associate member. Oriel...

3mc added to Ingard panel

Essex-based network Ingard Financial has appointed 3mc to its lending panel. Nikki Haworth, sales and...

Brits improve financial management skills

27 million (57%) British banking customers are more confident about how they manage their...

New Leeds 2-yr deal at 2.54%

Leeds Building Society has launched a new two-year discount mortgage at 2.54%, available up...

Average house price is £209,466: DCLG

In October UK house prices increased by 5.5% over the year but were slightly...

Plus &ccedila change in 2011: CML

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has predicted that the mortgage and housing markets...

NatWest in trouble over over Saturday claim

NatWest has had a television advert banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The ad...

Trio of brokers jailed

Three former brokers of The Money Centre (TMC), once the UK's biggest buy-to-let brokerage,...

New lending down 6% last quarter

New mortgage commitments for the third quarter of 2010 totalled £38 billion, 6% down...

N&P cuts two-yr 85% LTV deal to 3.89%

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has cut over one quarter of one percentage...

MBNA forced to improve debt collection practices

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed requirements on credit card lender MBNA...

LV= unveils free protection guide

LV= has launched the LV= Little Book of Protection. The free publication for advisers can...

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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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