We’ve come a long way, but there’s still...
Duncan Crocker, managing director of Legal & General Network, the UK’s largest mortgage distributor, looks at how intermediary distribution of mortgages...
Writing a mental health policy
Shoosmiths has helped produce the Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) and Royal Collage of Psychiatrists (RCP) briefing note on best practice for processing...
Leek United celebrates 150 years
In 1999 Leek United Building Society fought off a hostile takeover bid enabling it to carry on with business as usual and reach its 150th year milestone
The drivers to outsource in 2013
Lenders have worked with outsourced partners for decades, through all the ups and downs of the mortgage market. Adam Oldfield, sales director at Vertex...
Partners for life
Andrew Doyle, CEO of Crown Mortgage Management, discusses how lifetime mortgages are coming of age
The rise of the servicer
The financial crisis has led to a rise in special servicing and European servicers are increasingly managing distressed portfolios for originators and...
Mortgage application fraud is on the rise
CIFAS has published its latest Fraudscape report showing where the shifts in different types of fraudulent activity are occurring. Joanne Atkin looks at...
The changing face of funding?
The Funding for Lending Scheme has helped banks but it has stifled their need to issue more conventional debt instruments, such as covered bonds and RMBS....
Whose data is it anyway?
Alison Deighton, head of Data Protection & Privacy at national law firm TLT considers the increasing frequency of borrowers using the Data Protection Act...
Slow to grow
The equity release market has not grown as much as some people said it would, yet it has huge potential. Ged Hosty, managing director of equity release...