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Commercial mortgage brokers reveal their wishlists for the year ahead

The latest SME Pulse survey from Atom bank has revealed what commercial mortgage brokers...

London is top buy-to-let hotspot

Simply Business, a provider of small business and landlord insurance, has revealed the locations...

Metro Bank ups maximum BTL loan sizes

Metro Bank has increased its maximum loan sizes for its buy-to-let products. The changes include...

Equity Release Associates appoints managing director

Equity Release Associates (ERA), a network for self-employed equity release advisers, has appointed Sara...

Major rise in uptake of 35+ year mortgages

Freedom of Information (FOI) data from the FCA, analysed by Quilter, has shown a...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank align lending into retirement policies

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank have been working to align their policies for lending...

RAW Capital Partners joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of specialist and buy-to-let lender, RAW Capital Partners, to...

Advise Wise integrates with LV= to offer ‘instant KFIs’ and direct online apps

Advise Wise has announced the successful completion of an advanced API integration with LV=. This...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts BTL & residential rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a selection of residential and buy-to-let fixed rates by...

Together Financial Services splits CABS securitisation

Together Financial Services has separated and upsized its £1.25bn Charles Street securitisation programme (CABS)...

StreamBank appoints new BDM for London & South

StreamBank has announced the appointment of Aiman Maklad as business development manager (BDM) for...

Assetz Capital to increase focus on London and South East dev finance

Assetz Capital has revealed that it is extending its focus in London and the...

Don’t expect substantial change to Consumer Duty

Those regulated firms who are banking on cuts to Consumer Duty are set for...

Gen H cuts new business mortgage rates

Gen H has announced a series of rate reductions aimed at its new business...

COMMENT

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

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...

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Movera appoints Saunders-Proudlove to manage broker panel relationships

Movera has appointed Claire Saunders-Proudlove as partner relationships manager, with responsibility for managing and...

Chartwell adopts Instamo technology to streamline mortgage applications

Chartwell Mortgage Services has introduced Instamo's FastSubmit technology through its integration with JammJar, allowing...

Coleman confirmed as Financial Ombudsman Service chair after interim appointment

Liam Coleman has been appointed permanent chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), following...

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...

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