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Rachel Geddes becomes MAB’s strategic partnerships director

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has made two new senior appointments. Rachel Geddes is to become...

SPF Private Clients opens office in Dubai

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has expanded its operations with the launch of an office...

Close Brothers Property Finance appoints MD for structured finance

Close Brothers Property Finance has announced the appointment of Chiara Caldwell to the newly...

IMLA membership boosted by Leek addition

Leek Building Society has joined the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). The mutual's move brings...

West One starts BTL lending in Scotland

West One Loans buy-to-let division has begun to lend on Scottish properties. Brokers with clients...

CHL to hold broker webinar on limited company allowable expenses

The subject of the next free webinar organised by CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries will...

HTB restructures business development and makes new NE appointment

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has introduced a new structure within its specialist mortgages business...

Arc & Co. arranges €11.1m complex French bridge

Arc & Co. has completed a bridging loan worth €11.1m on two chalets and...

Paradigm adds ModaMortgages to panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of new specialist buy-to-let mortgage lender, ModaMortgages, to its...

2024 sellers saw lower price growth than during the pandemic

Hamptons has reported that property gains have moved back towards pre-pandemic levels due to...

HSBC makes residential mortgage cuts

HSBC is making reductions across its residential mortgage product ranges on Monday 13 January. The...

Large rise in crypto-backed lending enquiries

Enness Global has announced a tenfold rise in enquiries for Bitcoin-backed lending over the...

L&C Mortgages appoints chief marketing officer

L&C Mortgages has appointed Gemma Bacon as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Bacon's previous roles...

Safeagent revises Client Money Protection (CMP) scheme pricing structure

Safeagent, the not-for-profit accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, is making changes to...
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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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