Regulation

FCA tells lenders to offer cost of living support

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to over 3,500 lenders to remind them...

FCA fines guarantor lender and imposes redress conditions

TFS Loans Ltd has been fined £811,900 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in...

Over half of HNWIs have been scammed

53% of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) admit they have been victims of a...

MorganAsh adds registration service to vulnerability resilience tool

Support services provider MorganAsh has integrated the Vulnerability Registration Service (VRS) with its own...

Interim chair starts at FCA

Richard Lloyd has become interim chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He takes over...

New chairs appointed for FCA panels

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Helen Charlton as the chair of the...

Tenet Compliance Services partners with Legal & General Mortgage Club

Tenet Compliance Services (TCS) has teamed with Legal & General Mortgage Club to bolster...

FCA to accelerate removal of firms that don’t use permissions

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to use new powers to more swiftly cancel...

SmartSearch appoints chief operating officer

Anti-money laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has appointed Collette Allen as chief operating officer. Allen joined...

FCA refuses authorisation for regulatory consultancy firm

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has refused to authorise Alexander Jon Compliance Consulting Limited...

Five banned and fined for pension losses

The FCA has banned five directors of financial advice firms from working in financial...

FCA warns businesses over misleading credit ads

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is warning lenders and brokers to stop using misleading...

AMI infuriated by FCA ‘arrogance’ over fees

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has accused the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of being more...

New client vulnerability rating tool launches to brokers

MorganAsh has launched a consumer vulnerability assessment tool, providing an objective ‘resilience rating’ similar...
1...394041...111Page 40 of 111

COMMENT

Comment

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Latest news

Compliance

MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...
Breakfast Briefing news

Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...
News

RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...
News

Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...

PROFILES