Regulation

Personal Touch will subsidise members’ regulatory fees

Personal Touch Financial Services has told member firms it intends to subsidise their regulatory...

Paradigm heads to Belfast

Paradigm Mortgage Services is to hold a round table event for directly authorised advisers...

Safran: screen sharing can safeguard MMR sales process

Screen sharing can safeguard the MMR sales process for lenders and advisers through the...

FCA outlines consumer credit fee proposals

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper on proposed changes to...

Rabobank gets nine-figure fine over Libor wrongdoings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Rabobank for serious, prolonged and widespread misconduct...

Swathes of P2P lenders “could be wiped out”

The CEO of Assetz Capital has warned that regulation of the crowdfunding and peer-to-peer...

CML unveils series of online courses

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has launched a series of online courses to help lenders...

Bankhall urges preparedness for Retail Conduct Risk requirements

Bankhall is urging directly authorised (DA) firms to ensure they invest in thorough training...

OpenRent ad deemed misleading

A property website has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The website www.openrent.co.uk,...

Trio of debt management firms lose licences

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has removed the licences of three debt management...

Two financial advisers banned and fined

Two Surrey-based investments advisers have been fined a total of £885,000 and been banned...

Coogan outlines implications of FCA consumer credit proposals

Michael Coogan, former Council of Mortgage Lenders' director general and now strategic adviser to...

FCA will publicise warning notices

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to now use its new power to...

Branch MMR advice issues “solved by screen sharing”

Vizolution has published the second of a series of white papers looking at the...
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COMMENT

Comment

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...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

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