Self-employed

The self-employed have been marginalised from the mainstream

91% of brokers interviewed and polled for United Trust Bank’s new mortgage white paper...

SmartrCriteria sees surge in searches for self-employed clients

New data from Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool has shown that searches...

Self-employed twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage

Self-employed individuals are twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage, according to...

Vida improves criteria for contractors

Vida has unveiled a series of changes to its criteria for borrowers who are...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries introduces new residential proposition

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has revamped its residential mortgage offering to give wider access...

Brokers reveal most problematic mortgage applications

Research by broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, has found that mortgage applications for self-employed clients and...

Newcastle Intermediaries relaunches deals for newly self-employed

Newcastle Intermediaries has unveiled a new range of mortgages exclusively for self-employed applicants with...

Clydesdale simplifies self-employed documentation requirements

Clydesdale Bank has reduced the documentation required to support applications from self-employed customers. The lender...

Skipton reverts to pre-Covid self-employed contractor policy

Skipton Building Society is changing policy to make it easier for self-employed contractors when...

Hinckley & Rugby ups maximum self-employed LTV

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has increased the loan to value (LTV) is offers...

Borrowers with variable incomes still face lower maximum loan sizes

Borrowers who have an element of variable income are being offered an average maximum...

Clydesdale Bank improves self-employed contractor mortgages

Clydesdale Bank Intermediaries has improved its criteria for assessing mortgage applications from self-employed contractors. The...

The Beverley improves self-employed criteria

The Beverley Building Society has made changes to its self-employed mortgage criteria, which will...

Pepper revises self-employed mortgage criteria

Pepper Money has made changes to its criteria for self-employed borrowers and will now...

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Credit search vs credit scoring

The terms credit score and credit check are often used interchangeably by consumers, many of whom assume they mean the same thing. Yet understanding...

It’s not just about work/life balance

Firstly, it was good to get feedback on last month’s blog on technology from several people, and to see a spin-off follow-up blog from...

The value of building societies: 250 years of mutual success

A key anniversary reflects how far the building society movement has come — and how individual societies like Hinckley & Rugby continue to deliver At...

2025: The year of CX

In financial services, customer experience (CX) is no longer a secondary concern – it’s the key to sustainable growth and client retention. With the...

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