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4 days ago | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | Becky Bellamy |Momodou Musa Touray |Daniel Cooper
Paymentshield has enhanced its protection offering, including the reintroduction of unemployment cover to its mortgage protection policy, to sit alongside accident and sickness cover. The general insurance provider has also migrated its current mortgage protection and income protection book to AmTrust Specialty Limited, a subsidiary of AmTrust International, with Uris Group acting as the claims administrator.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | Daniel Cooper |Becky Bellamy |Roger Baird
The Treasury collected a total of £5bn in inheritance tax (IHT) receipts in the first seven months of the 2024/25 financial year. This is an increase of £500m (11%) compared to last year. The latest figures are the first to be published since Rachel Reeves’ controversial first Budget last month, where significant reforms to the IHT regime were announced. These included a freeze on the current thresholds for an additional two years and bringing inherited pensions into the scope of IHT from 2027.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
pcecompanies.com | Daniel Cooper
As a company leader, you recognize the difficulties of evaluating target companies for potential acquisition—and determining purchase price is particularly challenging. For business owners and financial executives alike, understanding the valuation process is an essential part of making an informed decision.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
pcecompanies.com | Daniel Cooper
As a busy business owner or financial executive, you may be tempted to trim nonessential tasks from your to-do list by asking a crucial question about each undertaking: What’s in it for me or my company? That’s a good place to start when considering whether your company should compile periodic business forecasts. But a second question should be: What does it tell others about my company?
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | David Burrows |Daniel Cooper
Pantera Property has become the latest organisation to join the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as an associate member. Pantera Property is a firm of chartered surveyors established in 2016. The firm has a dedicated team carrying out secured lending valuations for short term lenders. and provides a national property asset management service using innovation, experience and expertise to maximise recovery.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | Daniel Cooper |Roger Baird
Inflation is set to fall below 2% in the next few months, according to the latest forecast from the Office for Budget and Responsibility (OBR). In his Budget speech today (6 March), chancellor Jeremy Hunt said this was “nearly a year ahead” of what was previously forecast in the Autumn Statement. The government’s initial target was 2%.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | Roger Baird |Momodou Musa Touray |Daniel Cooper
Alternative Bridging Corporation has strengthened its underwriting team with the recruitment of Leigh Harwood, who returns to the firm. The specialist lender says Harwood, who has nearly a decade of specialist underwriting experience, previously worked at the business for two years until 2020. He has also held posts at Streambank, C&M Wealth International and GE Money. The firm says his experience will allow him “to structure solutions for complex cases”.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
pcecompanies.com | Daniel Cooper
As a trusted advisor, you’re determined to help your high-growth clients plan for the future, especially when they own a company that is growing rapidly. Often this includes helping them gift a portion of their company to the next generation—which means you’ll want to carefully examine their gift tax returns and any related appraisals before the IRS does.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | Roger Baird |Daniel Cooper
OSB group intermediary director Adrian Moloney has been appointed to the board of InterBay, the specialist commercial and semi-commercial lender that lies under the parent company. Financial services firm OSB Group owns a number of lenders including Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, Interbay and Charter Savings Bank.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
mortgagestrategy.co.uk | David Burrows |Daniel Cooper
Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has joined Mortgage Advice Bureau’s (MAB) panel of lenders, with a focus on complex buy-to-let (BTL) cases. Founded in 2006, London-based lender MFS specialises in handling large and complex loans, offering bridging loans up to £50m with terms between three and 24 months, and BTL mortgages up to £10m for a term of five years, with no ERCs after year two. Initially it is only its BTL mortgage range that will be available through MAB.
