Regulation

McDermott rules herself out of top FCA job

Tracey McDermott, acting chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decided in early...

New round of L&G Mortgage Club LIVE events

Legal & General Mortgage Club will host its fifth series of Mortgage Club LIVE...

L&G updates MCD info hub

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) Matrix, which...

PI Financial joins forces with Smart Money

PI Financial has selected Smart Money Ltd as its preferred partner for the provision of second charge...

November lending up 3% on previous 6-month average

The latest Bank of England Money and Credit figures, have revealed that loan approvals...

Newbuild firm rapped over misleading ad

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint made against a property sales...

CML calls for targeted deregulation

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to consider...

Why 2015 gave us food for thought

How might we describe the 2015 mortgage market when we come to look back...

Mortgage Brain sees 23% uplift in broker attendance

Mortgage Brain's 2015 series of Mortgage Vision events, held during October and November, saw a...

Further curb on buy-to-let signalled

George Osborne has given the go-ahead for the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee to restrict...

LLA responds to FAMR and financial guidance consultation

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

TFC secures full home finance permissions

Specialist distributor TFC Homeloans has been granted home finance permissions by the Financial Conduct...

Promise secures consumer credit and mortgage authorisation

Promise Solutions has received Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation ahead of the implementation of...

The Loans Engine secures MCD permissions

Master broker The Loans Engine (TLE) has received formal confirmation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that its application for...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

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...

Latest news

News

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...
Appointments

HLPartnership hires Toby Miles from Legal & General for recruitment role

HLPartnership has appointed Toby Miles as recruitment manager, joining the mortgage and protection network...
Technology

Mortgage Brain unveils major CRM Brain update shaped by broker feedback

Mortgage Brain has released its most extensive update to CRM Brain, introducing new functionality...
ESG

Consumers put greater trust in B Corp certified financial providers, says Cumberland

More than half of consumers say they would feel more confident in their bank...

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