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Newcastle Intermediaries reduces interest-only rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has made rate reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points across its...

Air teams up with New Leaf Distribution

Air, the later-life lending platform, has partnered with New Leaf Distribution to bolster the...

Bankhall rolls out Model Office to DA firms

Bankhall is updating its audit process with the roll-out of Model Office-MO to its...

Paul Brett to exit Landbay

Paul Brett, managing director of intermediaries, is to leave the business to set up...

Pepper Money cuts over 300 rates

Pepper Money has reduced rates across more than 300 products across its Residential and...

Atom bank lowers Prime low LTV fixed rates

Atom bank has reduced rates again on its Prime mortgage range for residential customers,...

OMS in API integration with Air Sourcing

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced a full application programming interface (API) integration with...

Royal London acquires Responsible Group

Royal London has wholly acquired the later life lending and product specialists, the Responsible...

Fiduciam welcomes new general counsel

Fiduciam has announced the appointment of Borja as General Counsel. De Ramon (pictured) has...

Together completes commercial real estate MBS pricing

Together Financial Services has announced the successful pricing of its fourth public small balance...

Coventry BS gives extra £1m to support local communities

For the second year running, Coventry Building Society is donating an additional £1 million...

Expat property enquiries up following rate holds

Offshoreonline, an online mortgage adviser for expatriates, has observed a significant upswing in expat...

LMS establishes Synchronisation taskforce

Following the Bank of England’s investigation and development of Synchronisation earlier this year, LMS,...

LendInvest Mortgages cuts residential rates

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its residential product suite in a week of...

COMMENT

The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Self-employed borrowers face narrower lender choice

Self-employed mortgage applicants have access to more than a third fewer eligible lenders than...

Landlords target growth despite rising costs

More than eight in 10 professional property investors plan to expand their portfolios during...

Home insurance defies wider fall in customer satisfaction

Home insurance has bucked a wider decline in customer sentiment towards UK insurers, according...

Nova appoints Andrew Smith as commercial director

Conveyancing provider Nova has appointed Andrew Smith as commercial director as it seeks to...

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