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Nivo offers solution to brokers struggling with Consumer Duty requirements

Nivo is looking to assist brokers and other businesses who may be struggling to...

SME cost pressure is leading concern for workplace advisers

55% of workplace protection advisers have cited cost pressures on SMEs as their top...

Rebrand for 55Plus Equity Release

55Plus, the national equity release specialist, has rebranded after almost doubling turnover in the...

Foundation Home Loans unveils new owner-occupied products

Foundation Home Loans has announced a refresh of its core buy-to-let and owner-occupied product...

Darlington Intermediaries joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has added Darlington Intermediaries to its lender panel. From today, Paradigm member firms will...

L&G updates protection offering

Legal & General Retail has updated its Protection proposition, improving its Critical Illness offering. The...

Five lenders piloting MBT Sandbox

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has confirmed there are five lenders who will be piloting...

Guardian to launch Income Protection

Guardian is to be launching Income Protection in the coming weeks, to sit alongside...

Paymentshield improves its home insurance quote process

General insurance (GI) solutions provider Paymentshield has introduced a new, optimised home insurance quote...

Allica Bank launches five-year interest-only commercial mortgages

Allica Bank has extended its owner-occupier commercial mortgage offering to include interest-only terms of...

British Friendly paid 90% of new IP claims in 2022

British Friendly has announced it paid 90% of new Income Protection claims in 2022...

Stonebridge recognised as SMP associate firm

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and insurance network, has become the first mainstream mortgage network...

Landbay reduces two-year fixed rates

Landbay has cut rates across its two-year fixed product range by 10 and 14...

Willow Private Finance appoints senior HNW mortgage broker

Willow Private Finance has announced the appointment of David Habib CeMAP as senior high...

COMMENT

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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1,000 borrowers sign mortgage deeds digitally in under three minutes

The first 1,000 customers have signed their mortgage deeds using Qualified Electronic Signatures through...

TMG adds Roma Finance to lender panel

TMG Mortgage Network has added Roma Finance to its lender panel, expanding the range...

Reactive is not a business strategy

I was reading a piece of market commentary last week about what’s defined the...

FCA bans debt management executive over dishonesty

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned Howard Roland Duckett from working in financial services...

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