Regulation

Two banned over Libor fixing scandal

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned two former senior executives of...

Tribunal upholds the FCA decision over Arch Financial Products

The Upper Tribunal (Tribunal) has upheld the decision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

Brokers need seconds regulation clarification

A master broker has claimed that mortgage brokers need more clarification from the Financial...

New fixed rates from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has launched new two and five-year fixed rate mortgages today. The...

2015: what cards are in the regulatory deck?

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”...

CML publishes concerns over European MCD

In its response to the Financial Conduct Authority's consultation on implementing the European Mortgage...

Payday loan cap takes effect

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new rules for the high cost short term credit...

Tenet to expand its master class programme

Attendances at Tenet’s 2014 training & development events have risen by over 30% following...

Govt recommendations to strengthen enforcement decisions

The government has published a series of recommendations to help the Financial Conduct Authority...

Debt management firm to pay redress to 4,500 customers

Debt management firm Harrington Brooks will voluntarily pay over £185,000 in redress to over...

Brokers praise Mortgage Vision events

96% of attendees of the 2014 series of Mortgage Vision events rated them...

FCA: early days but RDR seems be working

The first stage of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) post-implementation review of the...

Co-op Bank fails BoE stress test

The Bank of England has published the results of the first concurrent stress testing...

FCA consults over complaints handling

Financial services firms will no longer be able to use premium rate telephone numbers...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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