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Brokers blame economic worries for softening commercial borrowing appetite
Economic uncertainty and concerns around inflation have been blamed by commercial mortgage brokers for a cooling in appetite for external funding from…
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Smart Money People relaunches mortgage research into support for vulnerability customers
Smart Money People, the UK’s most comprehensive financial services review site, has relaunched its vulnerability-focused broker survey and, for the first time,…
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Fidelity’s market week – what’s driving markets this week
Fidelity International‘s Tom Stevenson, Investment Director at Fidelity International, offers a comprehensive take on the current market dynamics, highlighting the ongoing rally…
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Just Mortgages launches Just Learning to find and train new adviser talent
Just Mortgages, has announced the launch of Just Learning, a brand-new initiative to help budding brokers gain their advice qualification and secure…
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Market Mondays: tariff deals, tech earnings and Fed signals – Capital.com
Written by Daniela Sabin Hathorn, senior market analyst at Capital.com With a wave of international trade agreements taking shape and key economic…
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Why lifetime mortgages are becoming a critical IHT planning tool
Written by Dave Harris, CEO at later life lender, more2life Inheritance Tax (IHT) continues to prove a useful levy for the Treasury.…
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FCA appoints Liam Coleman as interim chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service
Liam Coleman has been appointed interim chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service. He will take up the role on 10 October 2025. …
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Later-in-life lending is no longer niche – so why are advisers still treating it that way?
James Tucker, CEO of leading mortgage tech firm Twenty7tec, which has recently partnered with platform Advise Wise to help brokers meet the growing demand…
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Clarity over relief: the new era of global trade unveiled by US-EU deal
Global equity markets are surging on Monday — not because tariffs disappeared, but because they finally crystallised. After months of brinkmanship, investors…
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EU/US trade deal pushes stock markets towards a new high
As the UK continues to ride the wave of the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 victory, investor optimism is reflected in strong market activity…

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