Training

Foundation opens financial services careers to young people with talent programme

Foundation has completed its first Future Talent Programme, giving 18 young people workplace experience...

Mortgage advisers get new route to Chartered status

Experienced mortgage advisers will be able to become Chartered Members under a new pathway...

Walbrook launches mortgage adviser apprenticeship pathway

Walbrook Institute London has expanded its apprenticeship offering with a new Level 3 pathway...

Simplybiz sets out August training programme for mortgage advisers

Simplybiz Mortgages has announced a month-long programme of online training for mortgage advisers and...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready...

The Right Academy targets 100 trainee advisers after strong start

The Right Academy, the specialist training programme from The Right Mortgage & Protection Network,...

ASA upholds complaint over ‘leading body’ claim in CPD accreditation ads

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against The Professional Development Consortium...

The Right Mortgage launches adviser academy

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has launched a training programme aimed at bringing...

BMPAN urges firms to strengthen routes into FS industry for young talent

The Black Mortgage Professionals and Allies Network has called on financial services employers, training...

Just Mortgages marks year one of self-employed adviser support scheme

The self-employed division of Just Mortgages is reporting encouraging early results from its New...

Echo Finance links with Mortgage Train Academy to fast-track newly qualified brokers

Echo Finance has formed a partnership with Mortgage Train Academy aimed at helping newly...

Countrywide Surveying Services names associate director for learning & development

Countrywide Surveying Services has promoted Sarah Chalmers-Stevens to associate director of learning and development...

Mortgage Brain continues hub rollout with Mortgage Force and Affinity onboarding

Mortgage Brain has completed the onboarding of Mortgage Force and Affinity Group onto its...

MIMHC offers free mental health first aid training

The mortgage and property finance sector is rolling out a series of free mental...

COMMENT

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Latest news

Advice firms step up technology use as integration remains key obstacle

Financial advice firms are taking a more proactive approach to technology, but integrating new...

Check launches mortgage readiness tool for prospective borrowers

Check.co.uk has added a mortgage readiness feature to its app, bringing together credit, affordability,...

Yorkshire BS team raises £1,000 with 198km treadmill challenge

Seven Yorkshire Building Society colleagues have completed a 198km treadmill ultramarathon to raise money...

Square 1 Media joins Momenti Group’s Observatory as corporate partner

Square 1 Media has become a corporate partner of The Observatory, the mortgage market...

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