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Editor's Blog
Editor's Blog
Distributors have got the fight of their lives on their hands if they are to survive the current turmoil in the market.
All the rules seem to have been broken in terms of which businesses will survive and which ones will fall by the waste side.
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Comment
Can franchising offer a lifeline for small packagers?
Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that September’s mortgage lending total of £17.7bn was 42% down on 2007’s total.
This simply puts into figures what firms in the mortgage broking and packaging sector already know: business levels have fallen sharply, many of the packager-based lenders are now out of the market, and the lenders that remain seem to be doing all they can to win new borrowers direct and cut out the broker.
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Pundits
Read what Mortgage Distributor.co.uk's mystery Insider blogger has to say about John Malone’s open letter to lenders, and why Insider thinks the letter only deserves a C-minus, not to mention a detention.
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Feature
Packager associations have been as much a part of a packager’s life over the past few years as tea has to the British.
But the strain is being felt in the market and doubts have been raised as to what the future now holds for the associations and whether indeed they have one.
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