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£725k raised for children with cancer at industry event

The recent Children with Cancer UK’s Gala Dinner, which was sponsored by Market Financial...

ONS reports 3.4% year-on-year rise in house prices

Average UK house prices increased by 3.4%, to £292,000, in the 12 months to...

Specialist mortgages take longer, but customers don’t seem to mind

91% of brokers are spending a lot more time completing specialist mortgage cases than...

Brightstar maintains carbon neutral status

The Brightstar Group has been re-certified as a carbon neutral business. The group, which includes...

Tipton & Coseley BS partners with Mast

The Tipton & Coseley Building Society is adopting the Mast Origination Platform to support...

Rental demand to increase with stamp duty threshold change

Landlords believe the change to the stamp duty threshold in 2025 will encourage tenants...

OneFamily appoints non-executive director

The OneFamily Group has announced the appointment of Phil Willcock as a non-executive director...

Market Harborough expands mortgage broker team

Market Harborough Building Society has added new recruits to its broker team, with two...

Gatehouse Bank improves online DiP facility

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its online Decision in Principle (DIP) facility, by...

Atom bank completes fourth case with care home provider

Atom bank has continued its relationship with an existing care home provider customer, delivering...

Sirius Finance provides £8m revolving credit facility

Sirius Finance has completed an £8m revolving credit facility to fund the refinancing of...

GDPR is fake scapegoat for Consumer Duty failures

Businesses that are falsely blaming GDPR for non-compliance with Consumer Duty are risking severe...

LiveMore achieves triple digit growth in revenue and lending

LiveMore has calculated that it will have generated year-on-year growth of 300% in revenue...

Funding 365 reveals new head of relationship management

Funding 365 has announced the promotion of Allegra Sykes to head of relationship management. Sykes...

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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