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AMI: Consumer Duty has increased adviser engagement with protection

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has released preliminary findings from its latest study...

Pepper Money backs Broker Boost Initiative

Pepper Money is the latest organisation to sign up to support the new Broker...

New bank to Help Africans in UK and offer BTL mortgages

Afin Bank has been granted its banking licence Authorisation with Restrictions (AwR). Afin Bank...

Suffolk BS further expands lending criteria

Suffolk Building Society has announced further changes to its lending criteria to provide greater...

MT Finance makes board appointment

MT Finance has announced the appointment of Marylen Edwards to the board of directors....

TRM launches online Mortgage Coffee Morning

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has new services for adviser firm members, including...

The Brightstar Group launches Specialist Lending Expo

The Brightstar Group has announced The Specialist Lending Expo, which it claims will assemble...

Conveybuddy provides RICS survey products with The Moving Portal

Conveyancing panel manager, Conveybuddy, has announced an expansion to its services by adding survey...

MAB becomes first intermediary network member of OPDA

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has become the first major mortgage intermediary to join the...

Zurich introduces group critical illness offering

Zurich has launched a new proposition, Group Critical Illness, which completes a full suite...

Non-salaried workers much less likely to be financially protected

There is an impending “life insurance equality gap”, as non-salaried workers, including freelancers, self-employed...

Towergate recruits new head of consulting services

Towergate Employee Benefits has announced the appointment of Mark Pugh in the new role...

Reward Funding appoints head of treasury

SME finance provider, Reward Funding, has appointed Tom Dundas to help establish a new...

Fiduciam expands funding with additional £100m facility

Fiduciam has secured £100 million of new funding to be deployed over the next...
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Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

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