An outsourced trail book marketplace for AFG brokers is being rolled out following a new arrangement with specialist cash flow lender TrailBlazer Finance.

The corporate regulator has banned an NSW mortgage broker from engaging in credit activities for seven years.

Less than 1 per cent of the complaints received by the financial complaints authority around banking and finance products related to mortgage brokers, AFCA data showed.

The major bank has slashed its two-year fixed rates to new lows but increased its four-year fixed rates by 20 bps.

Non-bank lender Capify has launched a new loan product that provides SMEs with flexible repayments to help them “recover and thrive post-COVID�...

Queensland-based senior finance specialist Mat Crossley spoke to The Adviser about how his business established a mentoring program for brokers to fill a gap in the market. ...

Victoria has become the first state to make permanent reforms that will allow the use of digital signatures for mortgage documents.

The Housing Industry Association has called for the abolition of the “inefficient, inequitable and unreliable tax”, highlighting the “inequity” that was caused by stamp ...

The contract for the chief executive officer of the major brokerage, Susan Mitchell, has been extended by another 18 months.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced that government will extend the SME responsible lending exemption, given the delays to the bill repealing responsible lending laws. ...

The progression of the bill that proposes to extend best interests duty obligations to more brokers has been delayed until at least May....

Property prices continued to spike and break records over the December 2020 quarter, while prices increased in all capital cities, according to new figures.

Mortgage brokers settled a record $107.51 billion in residential home loans between April-September 2020, new MFAA stats show.

Lenders continue to drop rates, with fixed rates in particular reaching new record lows.