Regulation

Bridger warns sector to “smarten its act up”

Too many short-term bridging lenders persist in "shady behaviour, charging exorbitant interest rates and...

Mortgage ‘mis-selling’ ad banned

Worcester-based Money Boomerang Ltd has had a television advert banned by the Advertising Standards...

Tenet backs APFA’s trail commission fears

Tenet has echoed The Association of Professional Financial Advisers’ concerns about the FCA’s stance...

FCA appoints four new supervision directors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed four directors to lead key areas of...

OFT investigates quick house sale firms

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has begun formal investigations into three quick house...

Vertex to offer mortgage advice

Vertex Financial Services is now authorised to offer mortgage advice after it secured a...

APFA proposes alternative way for calculating future adviser fees

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has today written to the Financial Conduct...

Financial incentives and the FCA

The TCF initiative has been with us for a number of years now. It...

APFA wants rethink following FSCS consultation

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has responded to the Financial Services Compensation...

RBS hit with large FCA fine

Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined £5,620,300 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

FCA bans and fines former insurance broker

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned Paul Cable of Bromley,...

CML: incentives not regulation will meet tenant demand

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) says improving conditions in funding markets – and...

Swinton Group hit with multimillion pound FCA fine

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Swinton Group Limited (Swinton), one of...

Ex-mortgage adviser gets two years

Michael Joseph James Lewis has been sentenced to two years in prison on two...
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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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banks

HSBC to cut residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

HSBC UK is reducing rates across a wide range of residential and buy-to-let mortgage...
Buy-to-let

Zephyr Homeloans cuts rates across core buy-to-let offering

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage provider Zephyr Homeloans has unveiled fresh rate reductions across its standard...
Development finance

Roma Finance supports £3.35m Colchester industrial scheme

Roma Finance has provided £3.35 million to fund phase one of a 23-unit industrial...
Appointments

L&G strengthens lender relationships with new strategic appointment

Legal & General’s Mortgage Services business has appointed Vicky Windsor as strategic relationship manager...

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