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EMF 2008: Naive to think 100% plus LTVs will not return says economist

EMF 2008: No market recovery until 2010 says S&P

EMF 2008: CML questions role of brokers

EMF 2008: Securitisation not dead

EMF 2008: Demand shrinking faster than supply

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Good business and good works

Well, we were there anyhow and it seemed fun to picture Mike Lazenby in the Diana seat at the Taj Mahal. It's an unlikely composition but the Queen of Hearts would have approved of the help Lazenby's Kent Reliance gives to the AIDS orphans of Mangalore
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N4 + 4 = FSA - S

On the fourth anniversary of Mortgage Day when the Financial Services Authority assumed responsibility for mortgage lending - code-named N4 - John Murray reviews the regulator's achievements
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Out of the shadows

On October 7, John Murray met Mark Hoban, Conservative shadow Treasury secretary, to talk about the credit crisis and the role of the opposition when party interests have to play second fiddle
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US mortgage banking, 2012

With everyone wondering what's going to happen next, Craig Focardi continues his quarterly analysis of the US mortgage scene with a bold look into the future
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Talking outside the box

Just three weeks into his appointment as Vertex's MD Mortgages Mark Charlesworth dropped by to talk about his new job and give us his take on what's happening in third-party administration and the industry generally
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Act now or pay later

Peter Williams, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association, believes that falling house prices are a symptom of the current market malaise rather than a cause, and calls on the government to take immediate action
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