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Mercantile Trust offers free EPC guide amid lack of awareness over new rules

Mercantile Trust has published research which indicates a lack of awareness among brokers and...

Advise Wise adds Appointment Log feature for Consumer Duty

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of its new Appointment Log feature, allowing advisers...

SimplyBiz introduces AR regime support programme

SimplyBiz has announced the launch of an Appointed Representative (AR) support programme, designed to...

MaPS CEO announces exit

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has announced that its CEO, Caroline Siarkiewicz, will...

Crazy not to have an integrated housing policy, says Family BS

A new report has starkly outlined the failure to create an integrated housing policy...

Consumer Duty Q&A: Phil Lewis, Source Insurance

BestAdvice fires questions on Consumer Duty at Phil Lewis, head of compliance and risk...

FCA bans referral fees for debt packagers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is banning certain providers of debt advice from receiving...

Air Academy launches vulnerability module

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has worked with Comentis to launch...

SmartSearch appoints new strategic alliances manager

SmartSearch, a provider of digital compliance solutions, has appointed Ian Wright as its new...

MorganAsh integrates Inbest benefits calculator

MorganAsh has embedded the Inbest benefits calculator directly within the MorganAsh Resilience System (MARS),...

Consumer Duty Alliance Technology Forum announces operational details

Ian McKenna, chair of the Consumer Duty Alliance Technology Forum, has revealed how the...

Equity Release Council launches new post-completion comms guidance

The Equity Release Council has launched new guidance for advisers and providers to supports...

SimplyBiz’s Consumer Duty webinar programme receives over 3,000 bookings

SimplyBiz has announced an extension to its series of Consumer Duty webinars, which has...

Engagement seen as biggest area of consumer vulnerability

The capability of consumers to engage has been identified as the largest area of...

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Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

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Movera launches specialist KYC team to speed up property transactions

Movera has established a new dedicated Know Your Client (KYC) team to handle source...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape...

HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...

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