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• First-time buyer numbers rise: UK Finance

  First-time buyer numbers were up in London, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales during the second quarter, the latest figures from UK Finance...

• Matt Lowndes joins MAB

  Matt Lowndes will join the Mortgage Advice Bureau after leaving Coreco this July . Lowndes has over 20 years’ experience in the financial...

• Trump postpones meeting with Denmark's prime minister because 'she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland'

  'The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct'

• Vaping Raises Heart and Lung Concerns

  The small study of healthy young adults discovered that even e-cigarettes without nicotine caused a short-lived drop in blood vessel function.

• It Takes Years for Heart to Recover from Smoking

  Experts have long thought that an ex-smoker's risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure or death from heart disease returns to normal within five...

• State's Legal Moves Cause Mixed Messages on Toxic Air

  In recent weeks, state officials have been moving swiftly to make legal agreements with Sterigenics that, in some cases, have bypassed public input.

• Tipton & Coseley launches two later life products

  Tipton & Coseley Building Society has announced the launch of two later life lending mortgage products. The offerings are a 75 per cent...

• RBA accepts banks’ pass through of rate cuts

  Minutes provide insight into central bank’s August decision and its plan for the cash rate moving forward

• CIF developing ID code for all industry participants

  Unique identifier to be given to “every participant across the entire value chain,” including bankers, aggregators and brokers

• Comment: Blockchain and the mortgage industry

  The blockchain concept was originally developed as an efficient and secure way to manage and register transactions made with cryptocurrencies...