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More 2 Life adds drawdown facility

More 2 Life is adding a drawdown option to its equity release product range. It...

2plan to be acquired by Openwork

Openwork it to acquire independent advice firm 2plan Wealth Management as part of its...

Nationwide calls time on third-party agencies

Nationwide is pulling out of all from third party agencies at the end of...

House prices fell 0.3% in July: DCLG

UK house prices were 8.4% higher than in July 2009 but 0.3% lower than...

Falling confidence in property market

The proportion of consumers surveyed in the September 2010 BSA Property Tracker Survey who...

Compliance risk from free legals: OpenConvey

Conveyancing firm OpenConvey has sounded a warning over so-called 'free legals' propositions. Jonathan Hall said...

Blimey! New secured loan packager launches

A new secured loan packager has started trading. Blimey! Loans is based in Perth and...

Arrears position continues to improve

The number of new arrears cases has been on a downward trend for the...

Aldermore sees first commercial conference as a success

Aldermore hosted its inaugural commercial mortgage conference at the Belfry Hotel and golf course...

Media insurance firm taken over

Oval Limited has acquired media insurance broking firm O'Neill and Bramwell Plc. O'Neill and Bramwell...

Unwelcome chart-topping for Lloyds TSB

Lloyds TSB Bank has topped the Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS) list of complaints for...

Specialist financial services recruitment consultancy launches

A new recruitment consultancy has launched for clients and candidates in the financial services...

Mortgage Brain back on tour

Mortgage Brain is to hold a series of events to showcase its new sourcing...

Essex broker has permissions cancelled

The FSA has cancelled the permissions of Forsure Mortgage Consultants to carry on regulated...

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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