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Mistrust of technology risks money laundering

36% of people in regulated firms who say they can’t trust electronic ID verification...

Just Mortgages records best December for self-employed inductions

The self-employed division at national brokerage Just Mortgages is having its busiest ever December...

Investec reduces mortgage rates by up to 0.55%

Investec Bank has announced changes to its residential and buy-to-let tracker range with rate...

Landbay revamps small HMO and MUFB range

Landbay has unveiled new products and rate reductions across its range of small HMO...

Hinckley & Rugby BS unveils green retrofitting partnership

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has partnered with green retrofit specialist Retrogreen to create...

Majority of adults want action over empty buildings

Over a third of UK adults say their local area suffers from an excess...

Gatehouse Bank cuts HPP rates by 0.50%

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its Home Purchase Plan products. The bank has cut...

MPowered Mortgages lowers rates by up to 30bps

MPowered Mortgages has cut rates across its range of two, three and five-year fixed...

Together refinances MBS warehouse facility

Together Financial Services has announced the refinancing of its Highfield Asset Backed Securitisation 1...

HTB provides £20m HMO portfolio refinancing facility

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £20m loan for the refinancing of a...

LiveMore launches £500 cashback range for over-50s

LiveMore has launched a fee-assisted £500 cashback mortgage range. Lending exclusively to borrowers over 50,...

Gen H unveils sub-5% rates

Gen H has announced another series of rate reductions, cutting its entire product range...

Stonebridge expands senior management team

Stonebridge has added to its senior management team with a new head of sales. John...

Atom bank cuts Prime range rates

Atom bank has again lowered rates on its Prime mortgage range for residential customers. This...

COMMENT

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

Latest news

Majority of first-time buyers now face higher mortgage payments than rent

More than half of first-time buyers moving from rented accommodation into homeownership are taking...

Foundation gains workplace accreditation after 93% staff approval

Specialist lender Foundation has secured Great Place To Work certification after 93% of its...

‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

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