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Lendco has strengthened its sales division with a series of hires in the first four months of 2026, as the specialist lender looks to accelerate its growth strategy and enhance support for brokers across the UK. The business has added four team members to its national sales function, each bringing experience in intermediary relationships and the wider lending sector. Richard Goodman has joined as key account manager. A qualified adviser, he brings experience from roles at HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS and Coventry Building Society, most recently working at Nottingham Building Society. Tom Gill has been appointed as broker sales…

Volvo on Ripple Treasury Signals a Bigger Shift Toward Real-Time Corporate Finance Volvo’s appearance on Ripple Treasury’s website has turned heads across finance and crypto. As noted by RippleXity, it points to a more intentional shift. Beneath the surface, this signals a broader evolution in corporate finance about the direction global treasury systems are taking. At the core of this shift is Ripple’s evolving strategy. In partnership with GTreasury, it has developed Ripple Treasury, a unified, real-time platform that consolidates cash, payments, and liquidity management. Rather than navigating fragmented banking relationships, siloed systems, and slow reporting cycles, treasury teams can operate from a single…

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The Tipton & Coseley Building Society has launched an online application portal to manage each stage of the mortgage journey. The lender has adopted the Mast origin platform with the aim of improving its service for brokers and speeding up underwriting and streamlining applications. The platform has been built for The Tipton and incorporates all its residential and buy-to-let (BTL) products. Through the system, brokers can interact directly with a dedicated underwriter and get immediate responses on cases. Third-party systems are integrated to manage identity and credit checks, process valuation fees and instruct surveys. The platform soft launched earlier…

Top U.S. profit and loss operator cites Rate’s unmatched technology, closing power, and entrepreneurial platform as decisive differentiators CHICAGO, May 5, 2026 — Rate, a leading fintech company and top retail lender, today announced that Marty Preston has joined Rate on its Profit and Loss Platform. Preston makes the move from Benchmark, where he most recently served as both president of retail and division president, having grown his production team from $200M to over $900M in annual volume in three short years. His decision follows an exhaustive evaluation of more than 20 lenders, with Rate chosen for its transparent and entrepreneurial…

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The markets consolidated with a negative undertone on Tuesday and closed the day with a minor loss. The Nifty opened lower and drifted lower in the morning session, forming the day’s low.However, the markets saw some recovery from lower levels; it managed to recover the bulk of its morning losses. The headline index closed with a net loss of 86.50 points (+0.36%).This AMC stock has staged a multi-month breakout; however, it consolidated just Source link

Aryna Sabalenka has warned the grand slam tournaments that a player boycott could be on the cards. A group of 20 leading players, including Sabalenka and fellow world number one Jannik Sinner, released a statement on Sunday night expressing ‘deep disappointment’ at the prize money on offer at the French Open later this month. The same group of players first took action last spring in the form of a letter to the grand slams but they have become increasingly frustrated by a lack of progress. They claim prize money will make up less than 15 per cent of revenue at…

It creates burnout.It creates the false idea that adapting medicine to what the client can afford means lowering the standard. In reality, it’s often exactly the opposite. It’s often the harder form of medicine to practice.Recommending the most expensive test is easy. The difficult part is deciding which test actually changes prognosis. The difficult part is separating medicine from professional ego. The difficult part is accepting that we cannot always practice the ideal veterinary medicine, but we can still practice an honest, pragmatic medicine.There’s also another problem we rarely discuss: we have confused evidence-based medicine with blind obedience.Evidence-based medicine was…

Buy-to-let (BTL) lenders may have slimmed down their product offerings since the conflict in Iran began, but ensuring landlords still have options matters most, it was said at a conference. Appearing on a panel at Mortgage Solutions’ The Buy to Let Event, Steve Cox, chief commercial officer at Fleet Mortgages, said times were tough, but business still needed to be done to support the rental market.  Emily Hollands, head of distribution at OSB Group, said smaller landlords may be less active, but larger, portfolio landlords would still make purchases, even if borrowing amounts or their purchase behaviour changed.  She added that from a lender’s…