News

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...

Industry unperturbed by November fall in property transactions

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published its property transaction figures for November 2024. Its...

Homeowners’ EPC ignorance costing them thousands

New research from Atom bank has shown a major knowledge gap among UK homeowners...

Pepper begins new podcast season

Pepper Money has launched the fifth season of The Specialist, its podcast for mortgage...

Foundation Home Loans unveils fee-assisted legal service for remortgages

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new fee-assisted legal service to borrowers remortgaging to...

MPowered cuts three-year fixes by up to 30bps

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its three-year fixed rate mortgages for new purchase and remortgage...

OSB Group promotions to focus on bridging and commercial demand

OSB Group has announced promotions within its sales teams to "strengthen its expertise and...

Twenty7tec’s Velocity users benefit from Natwest integration

Twenty7tec has integrated Natwest into the APPLY module. It will streamline the research and application...

UTB and Iron Bridge Finance partner over £10m development

United Trust Bank (UTB) Property Development has worked with Iron Bridge Finance to fund...

Advise Wise adds Forever Legal to one-click instruction feature

Advise Wise has announced the extension of its one-click instruction feature to Forever Legal’s...

Sikoia partners with Y3S to improve customer verification

Sikoia has announced a new partnership with specialist loan brokerage Y3S, aimed at enhancing...

Afin Bank opens new London HQ

Afin Bank has opened its new Central London headquarters ahead of its planned product...

LiveMore overhauls unveils new lifetime products and adds drawdown

LiveMore has expanded its lifetime equity release products to further widen financial options for...

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...

Latest news

Longer mortgage terms risk storing up problems for borrowers, warns Sprive chief

Mortgage borrowers could face greater financial pressures later in life as longer repayment terms...

Carter to leave Hinckley & Rugby to become StreamBank chief exec

StreamBank has appointed Hinckley & Rugby Building Society chief executive Barry Carter to lead...

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...

PROFILES