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Tech helps stock rally grow some legs amid Trump’s reign of confusion
The FTSE 100 is set to follow global stock gains as US stocks post third straight day in the green. Derren Nathan,…
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L&G’s Mortgage Services business welcomes Harpenden Building Society to Surveying Services panel
The new partnership will support valuations for complex and self-build mortgage cases. L&G’s Mortgage Services business has today announced the addition of…
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The proposal to consolidate small pots will help reduce industry operating costs – Scottish Widows
In response to the press release issued this morning by the DWP on the plans to introduce a small pots consolidator that…
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The sun shone on UK retailers in March but ‘Awful April’ waits in the wings
Retail sales rose 0.4% in March for the third month in a row, with warm weather driving increased demand for garden furniture…
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Propertymark responds to Rightmove’s latest Commerical Insights Tracker Report
MPowered Mortgages, the one day mortgage lender, has cut its full range of fixed mortgage rates, again, in response to swap rates…
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Nationwide cuts remortgage and switcher rates
Nationwide is cutting rates across its switcher and remortgage ranges by up to 0.29 percentage points. The new rates, across two, three…
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HMRC pays £44m in tax overpayment refunds to pensioners in Q1 2025
If you are covering the Q1 2025 HMRC tax overpayment statistics on flexible pension withdrawals, please see the following comment from Jamie Clark, retirement…
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MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed mortgage rates for second time since “Liberation Day” tariff announcement
MPowered Mortgages, the one day mortgage lender, has cut its full range of fixed mortgage rates, again, in response to swap rates…
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Bill for underpaid state pensions set to hit £1 billion, with women biggest losers” – Steve Webb, LCP
New figures from DWP suggest that the total amount of state pension arrears to be paid out by the Government because of…
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Government to press ahead with plans to consolidate small pension pots – AJ Bell
The government confirms plans to consolidate 13 million small pension pots worth £1,000 or less, long-awaited pensions dashboards could still have a huge role…

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