Regulation

HBSG issues discussion paper on improving home buying & selling process

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has launches a discussion paper to help...

Protection Guru facilitates new critical illness example definitions

Protection Guru has announced the launch of Designed by Doctors, a series of recommended...

HLP provides free membership to Air Academy

Air has revealed plans to partner with HLP to boost the network’s proposition to...

FCA confirms reforms to leasehold buildings insurance

The FCA has outlined new measures to support leaseholders in the multi-occupancy buildings insurance...

Later life market ‘soft skills’ more important than ever

In the later life lending space we’ve always talked a lot about the need...

80% of landlords says they were prepared for EPC proposals

UK landlords say they were in the main prepared for the government’s proposed Energy...

SmartSearch unveils new risk assessment service

Digital compliance provider SmartSearch has added a new ‘risk assessment’ solution to its recently...

Advise Wise introduces Fact Find and Suitability Letter System

Following the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) comprehensive review of the equity release marketplace, Advise...

Is it time for an authorisation rethink?

The recent announcement that Tenet was closing its network and moving its mortgage and...

FCA finds substandard advice in later life lending market

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reviewed the later life lending market and worked...

Right DA Club to hold ‘fireside chat’

The Right DA Club has announced a new virtual event taking place in September...

FCA to introduce new screening checks for financial adverts

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is introducing new screening checks for firms that approve...

10% of financial advisers considering quitting because of Consumer Duty

One in 10 financial advisers are looking to exit the industry because of the...

Premium Credit offers brokers monthly plan for FCA fees

Premium Credit is offering mortgage businesses a finance facility to spread their fees over...

COMMENT

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...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

Latest news

Hope Capital expands Shawbrook funding facility

Hope Capital Property Finance has increased its committed funding facility with Shawbrook Bank to...

Pivotal linked to Beneficial Network deal

LSL Property Services is understood to have agreed a deal involving Beneficial mortgage network...

London leads rental growth as supply shortage keeps rents high

London recorded the strongest monthly increase in average rents as demand continued to outstrip...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

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