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NACFB appoints broker pair as NEDs

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has appointed two broker members to...

Virgin Money introduces new fee-saver mortgages

Virgin Money is adding new mortgage products and withdrawing existing deals. The lender is making...

VAS Valuation Group expands Knowledge Hub

VAS Valuation Group has added five new videos to its Knowledge Hub. Hope value, comparable...

Market Harborough BS cuts rates and relaxes criteria

Market Harborough Building Society has made new year changes to its mortgage offering. The mutual...

Reward Funding provides £315k boost to NE developers

A pair of entrepreneurs are launching a new property development business following £315,000 finance...

The DPS partners with homelessness charity

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) is providing tenants with the option to donate interest...

Paragon Bank introduces limited edition five-year BTL fixes

Paragon has unveiled new limited edition five-year fixed rates, which include 0% and 3%...

Paradigm unveils three new Insight videos

Paradigm has launched the latest iteration of its Mortgage Market Insights videos. These are a...

HTB finances £3.93m pre-let commercial development

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has funded a £3.93 million development finance loan to finance...

Rockstone Compliance partners with Acre

Rockstone Compliance is joining forces with Acre, the intermediary platform, to provide brokers with...

People leaving capital at lowest rate for a decade

The rate of London 'outmigration' has slowed to the lowest level since 2013, according...

Leeds Building Society makes new year mortgage rate cuts

Leeds Building Society has made reductions of up to 21 basis points (bps) on...

Nationwide reports robust end to 2024 for house prices

House prices across the UK finished last year strongly, up 4.7% compared with December...

Stoke tops 2024 house price growth table

Halifax has revealed the top 10 UK towns and cities with the greatest house...

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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Goldman Sachs reduces Secure Trust Bank holding below 3%

Goldman Sachs has reduced its disclosed voting interest in Secure Trust Bank from 3.15%...

Global equity release lending forecast to treble to $52bn by 2035

Annual equity release lending worldwide is forecast to reach $52 billion by 2035, almost...

Buy-to-let yields climb to 15-year high as regional returns strengthen

Gross buy-to-let yields reached 7.22% in the third quarter of 2026, their highest level...

Mortgage Brain gives brokers more control over Nationwide DIP applications

Mortgage Brain has updated its Submissions Brain platform to give brokers greater control over...

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