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Hanley Economic bolsters residential and RIO ranges with four new deals

Hanley Economic Building Society has added four new products to its residential and retirement...

Uinsure appoints chief technology officer

Uinsure has promoted Ross Tyler’s to chief technology officer (CTO). Tyler (pictured) joined the business...

Black & White Bridging reaches 1,000 new home milestone

Black & White Bridging has calculated that it has supported the creation of 1,000...

Twenty7tec and Nationwide upgrade digital mortgage application process

Twenty7tec has announced a major upgrade to its Nationwide APPLY functionality. The update has been...

Barclays to cut five-year residential rates

Barclays is reducing rates across its five-year fixed rate residential purchase and remortgage range. The...

Significant rise in new second charge lending

Second charge mortgage new business volumes grew by 32% in October 2024, according to latest...

TML uses AVM for five-day BTL remortgage

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has completed a remortgage case through its Automated Valuation Model...

L&G’s Beardmore to retire with Hyett set to succeed her

Legal & General Retail has announces that Claire Beardmore will be leaving the role...

BrokerIQ to expand into wealth sector

BrokerIQ has announced the appointment of Robert Wood as non-executive advisory lead to oversee...

Enra Specialist Finance adopts Lendingmetrics’ ADP

Specialist lending group Enra is developing a new lending platform and has selected Lendingmetrics’ ADP...

Homeowners can boost retirement savings by leveraging pensions and property wealth

Homeowners could nearly double the amount of money they have on hand for retirement...

Gen H reaches profitability

Gen H has announced that it has achieved its first ever monthly profit in...

PRS sees growth in older tenants

Tenants on the run-up to retirement age are the fastest growing group privately renting...

Home insurance premium rises slow down

The cost of home insurance in the UK rose by 21% year-on-year between July...

COMMENT

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

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...

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Brokers warned of AI fraud threat as lender detects suspicious activity

Mortgage brokers have been warned that the growing use of artificial intelligence could expose...

Mortgage brokers warn DIPs are giving borrowers false confidence

Mortgage brokers have warned that decisions in principle (DIPs) are giving some borrowers false...

Bellway backs Your First Home as mortgage costs hit demand

Bellway has backed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme as the housebuilder warned...

SPF eyes broader proposition as it transitions to Howden Private Clients

SPF Private Clients is preparing to broaden its proposition beyond mortgages and protection as...

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