A primetime TV campaign intended to catch consumer attention succeeded in catching broker attention this week, as did the news of a serious mortgage fraud case. There was much interest raised in the portfolio lending arena too as the 30 September deadline for underwriting changes approaches.
Meanwhile the regulator garnered attention this week at the FSE and ASTL conferences with several areas of sectoral interest and plenty of warning shots to heed. And the potential for a new host of technologically advanced lenders could be on the horizon.
Mortgage broker launches primetime TV ad campaign
Judge jails ‘dishonest woman’ for mortgage fraud
FSE: Portfolio rules hand brokers risk for not reporting landlord tax avoidance
Housebuilder shares tumble after top bosses offload own shares
Network chiefs warn ‘poor advice’ and two-year churn throw up Brexit exposure risk
FCA ready to bare teeth on smaller lenders’ portfolio lending activities
MAB: Lenders launching next year are already more advanced than Atom Bank
RBS features in FCA’s Blockchain for mortgages project
Openwork to fund two-year training for mortgage brokers to become wealth advisers
FSE: FCA wants to extend senior managers regime to ARs
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
