Regulation

TMA to provide free compliance information

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) is set to provide free compliance help and information to...

New chair for Consumer Panel

Sue Lewis has been appointed the new chair of the independent Financial Services Consumer...

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....
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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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