Regulation

MAB hires compliance chief

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has appointed Stewart Baker as its new compliance director. He...

Huge fine for Sesame over advice failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Sesame Limited (Sesame) £6,031,200 for two sets...

Calls for FCA to streamline demands on advisers

Adviser firms spend on average 24 hours each over the course of a year...

Decidedly un-peachy verdict on payday loan ad

A payday lender has been told not to repeat one of its radio adverts...

Tenet: Growing appetite for QCF Level 6

Tenet has revealed that approximately 20% of its adviser population is currently seeking...

Tenet makes appointment to executive team

Tenet has confirmed the appointment of Gill Davidson as group regulatory director and company...

FSCS opens door to Honister Capital clients

Certain claims previously rejected against Honister Capital can now be reconsidered. Honister Capital, which includes...

FCA to review insurance claims handling

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to conduct a thematic review of claims handling...

AMI sees advice as being more crucial than ever

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has published its latest Quarterly Economic Bulletin which...

APFA urges member action over FCA budget

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has issued a call to action to...

Payday lenders “not standing by their word”

Payday lenders are failing to carry out checks to make sure borrowers can afford...

Firms reveal expectations of new regulator

The FCA Practitioner Panel has published the results of its survey of regulated firms,...

Gillingham broker to face trial for fraud

A former mortgage broker this week appeared at Medway Magistrates Court in relation to...

RICS wants compulsory regulation of estate agents

Nearly one-third of first time buyers admit they do not have a good understanding...
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COMMENT

Comment

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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