WASPI, Budget, rate cuts: Financial Reporter's top 10 stories of 2025

We've rounded up Financial Reporter's top 10 most viewed stories to sum up an exciting, and often unpredictable, year in mortgages and financial services.

Related topics:  Budget,  Mortgages
Lucy Whalen | Editorial Assistant, Financial Reporter
23rd December 2025
Financial Reporter

5. MPowered closes to new business amid potential sale

In October, AI fintech business, MQube announced a major group restructuring following a strategic review. 

The company decided to decouple its technology and lending arms and focus solely on its core technology business.

As part of the move, MPowered announced that it was no longer accept new loan applications, but that all existing mortgage customers and MPowered broker-partners would continue to be fully supported.

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