Bridging

Shawbrook issues bridging market bulletin

Shawbrook Bank has partnered with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) to...

Avamore Capital integrates with Nivo

Avamore Capital has continued to digitise its end-to-end lending process with the integration of...

LendInvest uses Salesforce for bridging originations

LendInvest has unveiled a cloud-based application for customers seeking short-term lending products. The new...

Aspen completes £1m four-day bridge

Aspen Bridging has completed a £1m bridge in four working days for a Hong...

Brokers increasing number of furloughed worker searches

Knowledge Bank’s monthly criteria index has revealed that in November 'furloughed workers’ returned to...

Shawbrook simplifies bridging range and cuts rates

Shawbrook Bank has revised the pricing across its bridging range, including both regulated and...

Second lockdown no barrier for bridging firm

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has reported its strongest November on record, with £45 million...

Masthaven Bank bolsters leadership team and board

Masthaven Bank has made a number of new appointments as well as promotions within its...

Death announced of former ASTL CEO

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has confirmed the death of Benson Hersch,...

Castle Trust extends term product rate discount

Castle Trust Bank is extending the 0.25 percentage point rate reduction on its term...

West One relaunches offering with wider distribution

West One Loans, which until now distributed its products through a limited network of key relationships, is widening...

MFS to be FIBA 2021 conference lead sponsor

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has been announced as the lead sponsor of The Financial...

Hope Capital extends Seventies Collection availability 

Bridging lender Hope Capital is extending the availability of its revamped Seventies Collection products...

Bridging completions rebound in third quarter

Data from the Association of Short-Term Lenders (ASTL) has shown that bridging applications reached...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Aria Finance joins Mortgage Brain sourcing panel

Aria Finance has joined Mortgage Brain’s Sourcing Brain module as a packager. The move gives...

Pivotal appoints group COO and CTO

Pivotal has appointed Nneka Orji as group chief operating officer and Charlie Crossfield as...

Fintel to roll out AI file checks across Simplybiz and threesixty customers

Fintel is to give all Simplybiz and threesixty advice firm customers access to AI-powered...

FCA looks to widen mortgage access with proposed lending reforms

First-time buyers, older borrowers and the self-employed could benefit from a more flexible approach...

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