Regulation

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...

Landlords believe Selective Licensing will put off newcomers

74% of landlords believe that if brought into force nationally, Selective Licensing will deter...

FCA boss to outline vision for regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has now been in operation for 100 days. Martin Wheatley,...

Paradigm releases latest MMR planning update

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published the latest instalment in a series of updates designed...

Phones 4u insurance intermediary slapped with multimillion pound fine

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Policy Administration Services Limited (PAS) £2,834,700 for...
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COMMENT

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

News

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

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

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

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

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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