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Perenna receives banking licence approval

New bank, Perenna, has secured its unrestricted banking licence from the Prudential Regulation Authority...

Independent Growth Finance appoints CEO

Independent Growth Finance (IGF) has announced that John Onslow is stepping down as CEO...

HTB enters Purpose Built Student Accommodation sector

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced that its specialist mortgages division has entered the...

MIMHC adds three more signatory firms

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has announced that three more companies have...

Royal London enhances pre-sale underwriting tool

Royal London has improved its pre-sale underwriting tool to widen the scope of medical...

Paragon funds £9.5m East Lothian housing project

Ambassador Living has secured a £9.5 million finance facility from Paragon Bank’s Development Finance...

UTB completes complex £22m refinance and capital raise

United Trust Bank (UTB) Structured Property Finance has completed a refinance and capital raise...

AIG Life expands Smart Health umbrella

AIG Life has improved its wellbeing services to give employees and their families even...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves shared ownership offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has enhanced its Shared Ownership proposition with the introduction of products for...

Sesame Bankhall Group appoints new CEO

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Richard Harrison as chief executive officer, subject to...

OMS joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced its addition to the Legal & General Mortgage...

Clever Lending packages regulated holiday let development bridge

Clever Lending has packaged a £180,000 regulated bridging facility for a broker’s clients who...

Vida unveils new limited edition products

Vida has launched a new range of limited edition deals. Two and five-year products are...

SPF Private Clients opens Edinburgh office

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has opened a new office in Edinburgh, marking the return...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

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...

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Sirius Finance formalises wealth management referral arrangement

Sirius Finance has entered into a referral partnership with JRM Wealth Management, enabling its...

Paragon appoints Fulford to lead specialist buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages...

Council tax reform tops homeowners’ Budget priorities

More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review...

My Legal Club adds three firms to conveyancing panel

My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it...

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