Regulation

Landlords desert the market amid growing fears over Renters’ Rights Bill

Small landlords are quitting the private rental sector in increasing numbers, as concerns mount...

TMG Mortgage Network creates new compliance and innovation role

TMG Mortgage Network has appointed Graham Bradley to the newly created role of chief...

The Mortgage Stop joins New Leaf

The Mortgage Stop, a Romsey-based brokerage founded by husband and wife team Rohit and...

SmartSearch enhances watchlist screening with World-Check One integration

SmartSearch, the UK-based provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering solutions, has integrated the...

Firms urged to digitise customer vulnerability to meet FCA targeted support rules

Firms must act swiftly to digitise their approach to customer vulnerability if they are...

MAB rolls out Comentis tool to bolster support for vulnerable customers

Mortgage Advice Bureau is deploying a new digital assessment tool across its broker network...

FCA appoints Liam Coleman as interim FOS chair

The Financial Conduct Authority has appointed Liam Coleman as interim chair of the Financial...

Why we shouldn’t wait for the FCA to act on later life lending

It might feel odd to be talking about a new year, when we’re barely...

Over 1,000 advisers join Simplybiz session on FCA’s S165 request

More than 1,000 financial advisers attended a live event hosted by Simplybiz earlier this...

Smart Money People relaunches mortgage research for vulnerable customers

Smart Money People has relaunched its vulnerability-focused research into the UK mortgage market, expanding...

FCA eases mortgage rules to boost affordability and simplify remortgaging

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a package of reforms designed to streamline...

The BBC’s exposé isn’t news to mortgage advisers – but it might be to the public

Let’s be honest, for mortgage advisers, the recent Panorama investigation into conditional selling by...

FCA proposes stronger safeguards for BNPL borrowers

Buy now pay later (BNPL) customers are set to gain significant consumer protections under...

FCA fines Barclays £42m over financial crime failings

Barclays has been fined £42 million by the Financial Conduct Authority after the regulator...

COMMENT

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

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Target Group posts record client satisfaction score

Target Group has reported its highest client satisfaction score to date, six months after...

Four-month fall in sales agreed signals weaker mortgage market

Mortgage lenders face a potentially weaker final quarter after property sales agreed fell by...

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

HSBC UK is increasing mortgage rates across much of its residential and buy-to-let range...

Cumberland expands school money workshops into second year

The Cumberland Building Society is extending its financial education programme for primary school children...

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