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Coventry BS completes Co-operative Bank acquisition

Coventry Building Society has confirmed that it has finalised its acquisition of the Co-operative...

Top 20 most expensive streets all in the capital

Knightsbridge in London was the most expensive street in which to buy property in...

Hope Capital expands Shawbrook funding facility

Hope Capital has secured additional funding from Shawbrook Bank, which is reveals is in...

PRIMIS partners with Mortgage Brain

PRIMIS has selected Mortgage Brain to help develop and deliver its new broker technology...

Pessimism over economy and personal finances on the rise

A new survey conducted by the Family Building Society has found that homeowners and...

The DPS partners with St Mungo’s

The Deposit Protection Service (DPS) is giving tenants the option to donate interest from...

FCA apologises to defrauded peer-to-peer investors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is urging people who may have invested in fraudulent...

Scammers now impersonating the regulator

A survey of 200 professional credit managers has revealed that 81% admit their organisations...

MPC holds rates but three members vote for cut

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted by a majority of...

2025 growth expected in demand for health and protection insurance

The Exeter has published new findings from a nationwide survey of the UK’s insurance...

Cirencester Friendly attains Protection Distributors Group Claims Charter status

Cirencester Friendly has met the standards of the Protection Distributors' (PDG) Group Claims Charter. The...

Rosemount outlines 2025 annual conference line-up

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has announced the agenda for its 2025 Annual Conference. The conference...

Uinsure partners with Suffolk Building Society

Uinsure has announced a new partnership with Suffolk Building Society. Through the collaboration with the...

Twenty7tec unveils 2025 Adviser Playbook

Twenty7tec is providing mortgage brokers with insight into when they are most busy and...

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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