Regulation

SimplyBiz pushes improved structured CPD offering

SimplyBiz Group has delivered over 100 hours of structured Continuing Professional Development (CPD)...

Costly arrears refund bill for the Yorkshire

Yorkshire Building Society Group (YBS) is to refund all administration fees for mortgage arrears...

MMR run-in behind monthly home loan growth?

Monthly home loans have risen between December and January for the first time in...

£30m fine for HomeServe

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its largest ever retail fine of £30,647,400...

Visuals needed for MMR says Vizolution

Introducing visuals to the sales process could be the answer to getting the right...

Debt firms have CCLs withdrawn by regulator

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has refused to renew the consumer credit licences...

Secured loan business boost expected from FCA regime

A new survey has found that 88% of brokers are anticipating to write more...

First Complete runs best practice meetings

First Complete has launched its first series of member roadshows for 2014. Called...

SFI rings the changes in advance of MMR

Santander for Intermediaries (SFI) has refreshed its Introducer Internet mortgage platform which will be...

The Money Shop falls fouls of ASA

Instant Cash Loans Ltd (trading as The Money Shop) has been informed one of...

Standard Bank fined £7.6m by FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Bank PLC (Standard Bank) £7,640,400 for...

FCA to review RBS’s treatment of business customers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Promontory Financial Group and Mazars to conduct...

OFT investigates ex-payday lender

The Office of Fair Trading has confirmed that it is investigating payday lender Web...

Capital Bridging Finance seeks regulated status

Short term funder Capital Bridging Finance has submitted its application to become a regulated...
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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...

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News

Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
criteria

UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range

Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...

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