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Focus appoints product director

Focus Solutions has appointed Peter Cobb to the position of product director. He joins the...

FSA bans three brokers, with fines over £400,000

The FSA has banned three men for mortgage fraud and fined two of them...

Bibby offers new funding scheme to SMEs

Specialist invoice financier Bibby Financial Services has unveiled a new funding initiative aimed specifically...

AFI appoints Fordham to senior role

Brad Fordham is to become head of sales at Abbey for Intermediaries on 1...

LeadPoint introduces telephone verification technology

LeadPoint has launched a 'real-time' telephone verification system, which will check automatically that the...

Demand for property remains subdued: RICS

Surveyors have reported that there was an influx of new instructions last month, as...

BIBA launches on YouTube

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has launched its first BIBA TV series on...

NFU Mutual makes key appointment

Ian Leech has been appointed sales and agency director of NFU Mutual. He has also...

Interest-only faces obsolescence: IMLA

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that interest-only mortgages will become "effectively...

Aldermore offers new buy-to-let variable product

Aldermore has added a buy-to-let product to its Limited Edition range of mortgages. The new...

Brokers should be central to financial decision making

It will all be over by Christmas, says Eddie Goldsmith, senior partner at Goldsmith...

Financial education key to dealing with impact of cuts

Financial education charity, the ifs School of Finance, says the announcements on welfare benefit...

FSA to fight banks’ PPI judicial review

The FSA has vowed to contest the British Bankers' Association's (BBA) judicial review of...

FSA takes action over insurance fraud failings

The FSA has banned four individuals for failings in relation to insurance fraud. The regulator...

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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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