Sesame is calling for lenders to resume normal risk-based lending and to increase loan to values (LTVs) to a minimum of 90%.

Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP) has reported a 22% year-on-year fall in business volumes despite a 5% increase in new customers in Q2 2009.

A "severely" ill director of an insurance brokerage has been banned by the FSA for failing to control the firm adequately.

Unemployment has soared to almost 2.4 million after a record number of people joined the growing jobless ranks, reports the Daily Mail.

Frustration with lettings agents is the biggest cause of people contacting The Property Ombudsman.

As US markets opened, the Dow Jones slipped slightly, down 0.03% to 8328.95 points following a strong rally yesterday on the back of hopes for an economic recovery.

Product providers and financial advisers will be presented with considerable opportunities from the ‘at-retirement' market in the next five years, Watson Wyatt predicts.

MPs have said that a government scheme to kick-start the UK mortgage market is not working.

Positive Solutions has added access to the ifs School of Finance Diploma for financial advisers through its Learning Academy.

The FSA has banned mortgage broker Daniel Esqulant for inflating his income by up to five times on his mortgage applications.