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Aldermore to hold MBE Leeds seminars

The Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) at Leeds Armouries on 20 April will include a series...

Pivot Finance selects Target technology

Bridging and development finance lender Pivot Finance has chosen Target Group to provide its Bluechip...

MTF hires head of new business

Bridging finance provider MTF has appointed James Anderson to the position of head of...

New associate member for the ASTL

CG Recovery has joined the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate...

EQUIS reports 30% increase in loans written

EQUIS has revealed that its members wrote loans worth over £1.1 billion in 2015, representing...

2015 a “brilliant year” for the bridging sector

The latest West One Bridging Index has found that gross annual bridging lending surpassed...

Using a bridge for an HMO investment

HMO developments can yield some fantastic returns upon investment and it is little surprise...

PTFS chooses secured loan & bridging sourcing system

Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS) has selected LoanSource from Twenty7Tec as an integrated product sourcing...

Shawbrook joins trade body

Shawbrook Bank, has become the latest member of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL). This takes...

Bridging lender cuts commercial loan rate

Funding 365 has made at cut in the starting interest rate for its commercial bridging loan product...

Support channels behind bridging surge

The recent growth in bridging finance has been attributed by Alpha Bridging to the additional...

New identity for Omni Capital

Omni Capital Partners Limited has changed its name to Fortwell Capital Limited. There is no...

Affordability hit borrowers turning to bridging

86% of brokers surveyed saw an increase in bridging loan volume during the fourth...

Packager to hold south coast buy-to-let event

Complete FS has announced the first of a series of seminars designed to help...

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...

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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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