Regulation

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...

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...
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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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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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