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Standard Life Home Finance to hold online later life lending clinics

Standard Life Home Finance, is hosting a series of online clinics for at advisers...

Bridging loan books surpass £10bn

UK bridging lending has reached a new milestone, with loan books exceeding £10 billion...

Virgin Money cuts purchase and PT rates

Virgin Money has announced a series of rate reductions across its purchase and product...

Arc & Co. appoints asset finance adviser

Arc & Co. has appointed Edward Raynor as asset finance adviser. Raynor (pictured) has a...

Time Finance provides multi-product funding to engineering firm

Time Finance has provided a specialist £650k asset-based lending facility to engineering firm, SpeedFlex,...

Barclays appointee to lead mortgages, savings and insurance

Barclays UK has announced the appointment of Jatin Patel to its executive team, where...

Darlington BS extends MSO partnership with finova

Darlington Building Society (DBS) has announced an early extension of its partnership with finova,...

Stonebridge sets completions record

Mortgage and protection network Stonebridge has revealed that its advisers arranged a record £13.5bn...

Equifax UK supports lender sustainability reporting

Equifax UK has unveiled its Financed Emissions Calculator, a cloud-based tool designed to help...

Enra completes £320m securitisation

Enra Specialist Finance, the parent company of West One Loans, has successfully completed its...

Selina Finance’s new second charge rates start from 6.34%

Selina Finance has reduced pricing across its second charge product range, introducing lower rates...

“Vast majority” of ongoing suitability reviews being delivered, FCA finds

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported that advisers are delivering suitability reviews in...

MT Finance reduces buy-to-let mortgage rates

MT Finance has cut its buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 50 basis point...

Cooling rental growth poses new challenges for buy-to-let sector

Latest data from Hamptons reveals a continued slowdown in rental growth for new lets...

COMMENT

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

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Goldman Sachs discloses 3.15% stake in Secure Trust Bank

Goldman Sachs has reported a 3.15% voting interest in Secure Trust Bank following a...

Market Harborough launches rental scheme offering deposit contributions to first-time buyers

Market Harborough Building Society is offering aspiring homeowners the chance to recover 60% of...

Tipton adds discounted rates for expat and limited company landlords

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has expanded its variable rate buy-to-let mortgage range with...

WIS Mortgages sets out five-year adviser growth strategy

WIS Mortgages has announced a five-year growth plan centred on expanding its adviser community...

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