Regulation

Competition Commission to investigate payday lending sector

The Office of Fair Trading will today refer the payday loan industry to the...

MMR focus of next Paradigm round table

Paradigm Mortgage Services' fourth mortgage round table event of the year will provide attendees...

Making light work of the MMR

As mortgage availability improves and last year’s concerns over the threat of dual pricing...

Sale & rent back arranger gets largest ever sole trader fine

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined sale and rent back arranger Gurpreet Singh...

Payday lender rapped for text messages

First Financial (UK) Ltd, trading as FirstPayDayLoanUk, has had three 'issues' upheld against it...

OFT suspends a credit licence for the first time

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today suspended, with immediate effect, the consumer...

Solvency II could scupper equity release

Those of us that work in the equity release industry are fully aware of...

APFA wants FCA to rethink its fee proposals

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s...

MAB hires compliance chief

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has appointed Stewart Baker as its new compliance director. He...

Huge fine for Sesame over advice failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Sesame Limited (Sesame) £6,031,200 for two sets...

Calls for FCA to streamline demands on advisers

Adviser firms spend on average 24 hours each over the course of a year...

Decidedly un-peachy verdict on payday loan ad

A payday lender has been told not to repeat one of its radio adverts...

Tenet: Growing appetite for QCF Level 6

Tenet has revealed that approximately 20% of its adviser population is currently seeking...

Tenet makes appointment to executive team

Tenet has confirmed the appointment of Gill Davidson as group regulatory director and company...

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

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

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

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

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

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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