Tag Result: Financial Policy committee (FPC)
Lenders ‘dice with spiral of complacency’ – BoE
There are signs that mortgage lenders are pushing at the boundaries in a bid to capture ma...
Our top 10 stories this week – 30/06/17 – what did you miss?
This week's top 10 stories on Mortgage Solutions are dominated by lending issues, from the...
FPC closes net on mortgage lenders bending stress test rules
The Bank of England has closed its net on mortgage lenders trying to bend the rules laid o...
FPC affordability test risks ‘adverse effect’ on housing market, says CML president
The Council for Mortgage Lenders (CML) is urging the Bank of England (BoE) to reconsider i...
What did you miss? The top 10 stories on Mortgage Solutions this week – 07/04/17
A lack of common sense from regulators and those in control of markets is a common refrain...
FPC fails to apply common sense to mortgage affordability
The Financial Policy Committee’s (FPC) decision to keep the affordability stress rate fo...
Carney wins control over buy-to-let lending policy
Mark Carney has won his fight to gain control over mortgage lending policy in the buy-to-l...
Less than half UK mortgage lenders passed rate cut to SVR borrowers
Almost a month on from the first Bank Base Rate cut in seven and a half years, less than h...
Carney denies Osborne ‘influenced’ Bank’s Brexit rhetoric
Mark Carney has maintained comments made in the run up to the EU referendum were not ‘po...
Fixed-rate products may alleviate BTL stress-test fears
Stress test issues relating to buy to let, mooted by the Financial Policy Committee, could...