10/01/2005  Credit Cards -- What You Should Know There are a lot of questions about using credit cards. Here's some important points for you: A quick look around on the Internet this morning shows that more than 9 million people in the UK do not ...

23/12/2004  FSA fines Bradford & Bingley £650,000 The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Bradford and Bingley Plc (BBG) £650,000 for the widespread mis-selling of precipice and with-profit bonds. Bradford and Bingley has also agreed to pay...

22/12/2004  OFT REFERS HOME CREDIT MARKET TO COMPETITION COMMISION The Office of Fair Trading has referred the supply of home credit to the Competition Commission for further investigation. This follows the OFT's analysis of a super-complaint submitted by the Natio...

22/12/2004  50% of mortgage intermediaries opt for direct authorisation 50% of mortgage intermediaries and brokers had opted to be directly authorized by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) by the time they visited Mortgage Business Expo, a fortnight after M-Day. Th...

22/12/2004  SPML announces 35% increase in completions in 2004 Southern Pacific Mortgage Limited (SPML) has announced a 35% increase in completions in its 2003/4 trading year ending 30 November 2004. Completions across first and second charge loans increased from...

20/12/2004  NAEA PREDICTS STABLE HOUSING MARKET FOR 2005 The National Association of Estate Agents is predicting a stable housing market in 2005, continuing the slowdown of the last few months of 2004. Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the NAEA, say...

20/12/2004  Bridging Loan from Enable Finance Enable Finance Ltd is soon to announce a new range of of Bridging loan products and position its self as a niche lender for bridging loans and short term finance. "Our plan to launch as a principa...

02/12/2004  Mortgages Plc Enhance Product Range MORTGAGES PLC ENHANCES PRODUCT RANGE Mortgages plc, the specialist non-conforming and bad credit lender, has announced the first in a series of strategic product enhancements designed to position t...

24/11/2004  Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd. Announces... Southern Pacific Mortgage Limited (SPML) has announced the launch of new fixed rates on its current “Light Adverse” range, for full status applications only. The fixed rates start from 6.54% and are ...

19/11/2004  Independent research reveals 'rehabilitative nature' of non-conforming mortgages GMAC-RFC sponsored research, conducted by NOP, has been launched in the first major public policy analysis into the non-conforming mortgage market entitled "Non-Conforming Mortgages in the UK: A Consu...

17/11/2004  Enable Consumer Finance Enable Finance Ltd. specialist bad credit mortgage & loan provider is proud to announce a brand new Consumer Finance and home improvement product that offers Point Of Sale Finance to applicants that m...

08/11/2004  Will customers pay more under regulation? While lenders will undoubtedly want to display competitive rates on Key Facts Illustrations, the money will have to be found from somewhere and there have been suggestions that products will be simpli...

08/11/2004  Merrill Lynch acquires Mortgages PLC MPLC's venture capitalist parent Nikko acquired the lender in December 2001 for less than £25m - £20.76m for Series A loan notes and £3.19m in the form of a working capital loan. Although the sale p...

05/11/2004  Record Bankruptcies Ahead Warns Insolvency Trade Body R3 Today’s news from the Department of Trade & Industry of another surge in bankruptcies comes as no surprise to the insolvency profession. According to the DTI figures, during the past three months 9,1...

04/11/2004  Mortgages Plc announce rate cut Mortgages plc, the specialist non-conforming lender, has cut its Standard Variable Rate (SVR) by 0.25% within 48 hours of announcing its acquisition by Merrill Lynch. With effect from 1 December, Mort...

28/10/2004  igroup revamp secured loans igroup, a brand business of GE Consumer Finance Home Lending, has re-launched its base rate tracking 'Xpress' secured loan range. The key improvements include to igroup's secured loans: Brand n...

17/09/2004  South Yorkshire Finance Ltd. Enable Finance Ltd. is proud to announce the acquisition of South Yorkshire Finance Ltd. The move further strengthens Enable Finance’s position in the mortgage and loan market as a National finance br...