A former fund manager from Suffolk has launched an online platform to prevent children from succumbing to the “damage of debt”. Helen Driver, who has had a 20-year career in finance and banking, is the brains behind Moneyready, a tool designed to help young people between the ages of seven and 18 manage money. The…
Independent mortgage brokerage Boon Brokers, which works with clients across Suffolk and Norfolk, is celebrating being shortlisted in a prestigious national industry award. Bungay-based Boon Brokers is one of nine finalists in the Small Broker of the Year category at the 2020 Mortgage Awards. Now in its third year, The Mortgage Awards aim to reward…
A Suffolk-based mortgage broker is launching an education programme to urge people to ensure they know all the facts about equity release. Almost £4 billion was obtained by homeowners through equity release in the year to August 2019 – a 12 per cent increase on the previous year*. Yet for many people it remains a…
Homeowners in Norfolk and Suffolk could be wasting more than £116 million on unnecessary mortgage broker fees, it has been claimed. Dismayed by the number of mortgage brokers in the region that are still charging fees for advice or arrangement of mortgages, Boon Brokers is reminding consumers that they do not have to pay broker…
The Scrutton Bland Group has strengthened its senior management line-up with the announcement of Faye Howard as the latest professional to join the firm’s partner team. Qualifying as a chartered certified accountant in 2004, Faye joined Scrutton Bland in 2014 as a Private Client Tax Director to develop the firm’s Private Client tax offering. The…
The approval of the European Union’s (EU) Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in January 2018 means that the landscape for online transactions in the UK is set to change forever. From September 14, 2019 businesses that accept online payments from customers will be required to comply with PSD2, which builds on the original Payment Services Directive…
Caroline Cotterell has been appointed HR director by Scrutton Bland LLP, the third new senior role for the financial services group in 18 months. With over 19 years of operational and strategic HR experience, ranging from managing complex projects to overseeing change management programmes, Caroline will lead Scrutton Bland’s HR function which works with employees…
Funding Falcon is supporting the St Elizabeth Hospice Suffolk Remembers event on Felixstowe seafront. Suffolk Remembers encourages people to celebrate the lives of loved ones no longer with us by dedicating a candle in their memory. Funding Falcon, which provides businesses with access to finance for their customers, works with a different charity each quarter…