Article: 'Loan cold-calling ban means big job losses'.(Brief Article)

Mortgage intermediaries are warning that FSA plans to ban cold-calling of potential clients would cause "mass unemployment" and put firms out of business unless they can find alternative sales channels.

The proposals to prevent unprompted tele-canvassing and emailing to drum up new business, included in its near final rules section of CP146, would bring mortgage business into line with investment regulation, says the regulator. But brokers warn this would have a devastating effect on their profits and a knock-on impact on lenders' income.

Staffordshire-based remortgage broker The Black & White Group says all its business, which is 80 per cent prime and ...

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