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Dudley Building Society reduces retention and further advance rates

Dudley Building Society has updated its range of mortgage retention products. This includes rate reductions...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) partners with Atom bank

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added Atom bank to its lender panel. The deal provides...

Softening in house price growth

Nationwide has reported that the annual rate of house price growth slowed to 4.1%...

Market Financial Solutions’ loan book hits £2.4bn mark

Market Financial Solutions has revealed that its loan book has surpassed its £2 billion...

Black & White Bridging completes complex refinance transaction

Black & White Bridging has completed its first refinance transaction of a specialist asset. The...

HSBC revises mortgage product end dates

HSBC is making changes to its residential and buy-to-let mortgage product ranges. The changes will...

Skipton Business Finance finances recycled plastic baling firm

Skipton Business Finance has provided six-figure support for a Lancashire-based company that has developed...

Bank of Ireland UK to invest £100m on enhancing products and services

Bank of Ireland UK has announced an investment of £100 million over the next...

Family Building Society improves buy-to-let lending criteria

Family Building Society has introduced a new range of owner-occupier interest-only and buy-to-let products. Two-year...

Total equity release lending rises for third successive quarter

Over 15,000 customers were active in the equity release market for the first time...

Precise reduces residential rates and adds new fee options

Precise has revised its residential product range and reduced rates across the 75% and...

Skipton Group announces new CEO of Money

Skipton Group has announced the appointment of Jasvinder (Jazz) Gakhal as Skipton Group’s new...

Time Finance welcomes BDM to invoice finance team

Time Finance has appointed Jamie O’Neill as an invoice finance business development manager (BDM). O'Neill...

Atom bank cuts Near Prime & Prime rates

Atom bank has lowered reduced rates across both its Prime and Near Prime products. Rates...

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....

Latest news

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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