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A look back at last week’s most read stories

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  • 20/09/2013
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A look back at last week’s most read stories
Each Friday, Mortgage Solutions rounds up the most popular articles on the website over the past week.

This week’s top five stories:

1) Personal Touch sheds fifth of ARs ahead of MMR
Personal Touch has lost a fifth of its appointed representatives ahead of the Mortgage Market Review while experiencing a 66% fall in pre-tax profits.

2) Networks acting like ‘frightened children in a forest’ – Matthew Wyles
Matthew Wyles, senior adviser at Castle Trust, has described networks as being like ‘frightened children in a forest’ when presented with innovation in the mortgage market.

3) Estate agents like biblical marauders – Cable
Vince Cable compared estate agents to biblical armies in an unrepentant speech to his party yesterday afternoon.

4) FCA finds adviser-provider conflict of interest breaches in half of firms sampled
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found breaches to Principle 8 regarding conflicts of interest in half of the firms it reviewed as part of a report into inducements between advisers and providers.

5) Sesame chief calls for ‘radical’ hybrid pension and mortgage products
Sesame Bankhall’s chief has urged industry bosses to create “radical” integrated retirement and mortgage products in order to beat the savings crisis.

Here are some stories you may have missed:

Time to plan your post-MMR protection strategy – First Complete
It’s now just over seven months until the Mortgage Market Review comes into force, writes Toni Smith.

Top 10 ways to improve your case quality
As the mortgage market shows continuing signs of recovery Peter Izard, head of mortgages at Saffron For Intermediaries, has a few hints and tips to help ensure your applications have as smooth a passage as possible through to completion.

To train or recruit: the MMR dilemma
We know the Mortgage Market Review is going to shake up the mortgage market and the focus will turn completely to advice, writes Adam Williams, but how will this affect lenders’ direct channels?

HMRC targets landlords over unpaid tax
HM Revenue and Customs is giving landlords who have not declared all of their rental income to the taxman a chance to come forward and ‘put their tax affairs in order’.

The British Mortgage and Protection Senate in pictures
Industry leaders and other figureheads from the mortgage world came together for the British Mortgage and Protection Senate 2013, and Mortgage Solutions has pictures from the event.

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