Regulation

Tenet wants regulator funding review

Tenet has called for a comprehensive review of how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

FCA sets out challenges for financial services industry

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published two occasional papers on behavioural economics to...

AMI expresses concern over new FCA fees and costs

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) says the increase of 15% in the FCA's...

FCA publishes its Annual Funding Requirement

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced its Annual Funding Requirement (AFR) for 2013/14....

Regulator letting consumers down: CAB

Citizens Advice has lamented the new conduct rules for claims management companies, claiming they...

Six landbanking firms wound up

Half a dozen firms that scammed the public into investing in plots of agricultural...

HBOS: ‘a manual for bad banking’ says parliament

The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards has concluded that HBOS would have faced oblivion...

APFA wants FCA fees to reflect adviser numbers

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the upcoming fees paper...

Goodbye FSA, hello FCA

There is a new regulatory structure in place within financial services. The Financial Services Authority...

FCA board confirmed

The Treasury has named the members of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Board. The...

Barriers to entry for new bank entrants relaxed

The FSA and the Bank of England have published the results of their review...

APFA fears big adviser hike in regulator’s budget

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s...

FCA business plan and risk outlook published

The FSA has published the business plan and risk outlook for the Financial Conduct...

OFT revokes payday lender’s licence

Online payday lender, MCO Capital has had its consumer credit licence revoked by the...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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News

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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