Law Society comment on HSBC conveyancing panel
We announced yesterday that HSBC and the Law Society were in the final stages of agreeing the process of incorporating Conyeyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) firms onto its mortgage conveyancing panel. The new process will be piloted on August 14 and rolled out across England and Wales on August 29 2012. Today the Law Society chief […]
Thomson Reuters to support Co-operative legal services expansion
Thomson Reuters today announced that Co-operative Legal Services has selected a Thomson Reuters product to support its front office matter management needs. It’s been a big week for Co-op with the announcement that they are set to grow to nearly 1,000 branches with the purchase of parts of the Lloyds Banking group. The Co-op was […]
CML publishes top 20 lenders list
Lending remains heavily concentrated across the six largest lenders (Lloyds Banking Group, Santander, Barclays, Nationwide BS, The Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC). Lloyds Banking Group tops the 2011 list with a 19.9% market share. The six largest lenders advanced mortgages worth £113.8 billion in 2011, up from £110.8 billion in 2010. Despite this increase […]