Regulation

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...

FCA publishes annuities sale findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings of its thematic review into...

Tenet unveils consumer credit compliance service

Tenet says it believes most financial advisers need consumer credit authorisation, but that...

V Loans to expand services following FCA permission

V Loans, the specialist secured lending arm of KR Group, has been granted full...

The Autumn Statement in full

Mr Speaker, Four years ago, in the first Autumn Statement of this Parliament, I presented...

Seconds to break £1bn barrier next year?

The second charge loans market will more than double in size within three years,...

NACFB promotes UK approach to rest of Europe

The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) attended the EU Conference on SME...

CMA rejects call for more property management regulation

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the findings and recommendations from its...

New FCA rules for credit brokers unveiled

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has introduced new rules today to tackle poor practice...
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COMMENT

Comment

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

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Artificial Intelligence

Advice firm wins first client through ChatGPT after AI visibility push

A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of...
News

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...
Analysis

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...
Economy

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...

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