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Confidence boosts suggests the worst is over

Nationwide's Consumer Confidence Index rose by six points last month, increasing to 71 from...

Commercial First creates intermediary partnership

Commercial First has launched a distribution partnership for commercial intermediaries. Commercial First Partners (CFP)...

Third consecutive month for house prices rises: Halifax

House prices increased by 1.6% in September, the third consecutive monthly increase and the...

Gateway appointed to Co-op Bank panel

Gateway has been added to the Co-operative Bank's approved panel of valuers. Terry Jordan, the...

SHIP unveils development forum

Equity release trade body SHIP wants industry stakeholders to sign up to its Equity...

TrigoldCrystal moves into equity release

TrigoldCrystal is to release an equity release sourcing system in November. The TrigoldCrystal Equity Release...

HSBC extends availability of 1.99% deal

HSBC has announced that its 1.99% two-year discount mortgage product will now be available...

Tiuta to use Expo to promote &quotambitious&quot plans

Tiuta is more than doubling its presence at this year's Mortgage Business Expo. The annual...

Deep Blue expands bridging panel

Scottish packager Deep Blue Limited has added Blemain to its bridging finance packaged panel. Deep...

Lloyds TSB Commercial offers new debtor insurance facility

Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance has unveiled a service for SMEs to guard against bad...

New FSA liquidity rules to be phased in

The FSA has published final rules on the liquidity requirements expected of firms, designed...

TFO offers new bank auditing service

South Wales based specialist finance broker The Funding Operation (TFO) has launched a new...

Bond Finance adds to Paradigm’s commercial offering

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Bond Finance Ltd to its commercial broker panel. Bond Finance...

The Leeds raises charity cash

the Leeds Building Society has raised £7,000 for three charities. The Leeds' harvest festival themed...

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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