Regulation

New EU mortgage rules backed by deVere UK

The new EU rules for mortgages provide improved protection for consumers, but regulators need...

CML unruffled by EU Mortgage Credit Directive agreement

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has welcomed the Irish Presidency's announcement that agreement...

Bristol and West loses multimillion pound tax avoidance ploy

Bristol and West has lost an attempt at Tax Tribunal to avoid paying around...

UCIS director disqualified by Insolvency Service

Wasim Minhas, director of Plateau Development and Land Limited, a company that illegally sold...

Quick house sale market in the spotlight

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a study into the 'quick house...

FCA outlines strategy on regulatory failure

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its approach to investigating and reporting on...

Eight charged by FCA over land banking

Eight men have been charged by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with conspiracy to...

BPF backs ‘eleventh hour’ regulation of letting agents

The British Property Federation (BPF) has claimed that landlords and tenants are a step...

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...
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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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