Regulation

FCA approves change of control for Everyday Loans

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has given the green light for Non Standard Finance...

New deputy governor for the BoE

Sam Woods has been appointed deputy governor for the Bank of England with responsibility...

FCA allows affordability waiver for lifetime mortgages

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided allow lifetime mortgage lenders to apply for...

Call for re-levelling of disclosure playing field

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has called for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

“Time for DAs to decide” over seconds route

Master broker Clever Lending says it is still seeing a number of Directly Authorised...

Business as usual for seconds

Fluent Money has claimed that "strong" collaboration between lenders, distributors and brokers in the...

AMI to fight FCA’s “unfair fees”

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has responded the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Business...

FHL: longer-term BTL rates should appease FPC

Foundation Home Loans’ commercial director, Simon Bayley, believes that much of the issue surrounding...

IMLA fears PRA action will dumb down buy-to-let market

The intermediary Mortgage Lenders' Association (IMLA) has responded to the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consultation...

Lloyds Bank launches online remortgage service

A new online service to provide increased ease for those looking to switch their...

Kent Reliance offers landlord guide to incorporating

Kent Reliance has commissioned a new report to educate landlords on the tax implications...

BoE proposes BTL affordability tests

The Bank of England is seeking to further clamp down on the UK's buy-to-let...

BoE seeks to define ‘portfolio landlord’

The Bank of England's Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) intends to establish a standard definition of...

80% of DAs advising on second charges themselves

The Loans Engine has claimed that eight out of 10 directly authorised (DA) advisers...
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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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