Archive for the ‘Financial Mortgage Market’ Category

RBS Problems

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Yesterday, RBS revealed that its losses for the full year could reach as much as £28 billion, the biggest-ever loss in UK corporate history, mainly due to charges related to its acquisition of ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, last year.

The Government, which (more…)

What happened to the Finance Market

Monday, January 5th, 2009

In the UK mortgage brokers have to go through very tough controls and are continually monitored by a regulatory body called the Financial Services Authority. 

 

If you are applying to become a mortgage broker you have to go through exams which usually can take over a year and longer to complete.  Once you have passed these mortgage broker or mortgage adviser exams you have to (more…)

Mortgage-2 new broker blog

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Welcome to our new broker blog.  Initially set up by Jim Mathieson to keep up to date any relevent news in the mortgage broker business in the UK and around the world, as most financial news affects us all globally now.