Regulation

Personal Touch will subsidise members’ regulatory fees

Personal Touch Financial Services has told member firms it intends to subsidise their regulatory...

Paradigm heads to Belfast

Paradigm Mortgage Services is to hold a round table event for directly authorised advisers...

Safran: screen sharing can safeguard MMR sales process

Screen sharing can safeguard the MMR sales process for lenders and advisers through the...

FCA outlines consumer credit fee proposals

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper on proposed changes to...

Rabobank gets nine-figure fine over Libor wrongdoings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Rabobank for serious, prolonged and widespread misconduct...

Swathes of P2P lenders “could be wiped out”

The CEO of Assetz Capital has warned that regulation of the crowdfunding and peer-to-peer...

CML unveils series of online courses

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has launched a series of online courses to help lenders...

Bankhall urges preparedness for Retail Conduct Risk requirements

Bankhall is urging directly authorised (DA) firms to ensure they invest in thorough training...

OpenRent ad deemed misleading

A property website has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The website www.openrent.co.uk,...

Trio of debt management firms lose licences

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has removed the licences of three debt management...

Two financial advisers banned and fined

Two Surrey-based investments advisers have been fined a total of £885,000 and been banned...

Coogan outlines implications of FCA consumer credit proposals

Michael Coogan, former Council of Mortgage Lenders' director general and now strategic adviser to...

FCA will publicise warning notices

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to now use its new power to...

Branch MMR advice issues “solved by screen sharing”

Vizolution has published the second of a series of white papers looking at the...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping...

OneDome named among UK’s fastest-growing tech firms

Property and fintech platform OneDome has been ranked 17th in the 2025 Deloitte UK...

Afin Bank appoints Rob Lankey as director of credit

Specialist lender Afin Bank has appointed industry veteran Rob Lankey as director of credit,...

Shawbrook backs Carmichael Homes’ canal-side development in Falkirk

A multi-million-pound funding facility from Shawbrook Bank is supporting Carmichael Homes’ latest project, The...

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