Bridging

Knowledge Bank sees shake-up in criteria searches

Knowledge Bank has reported a change in criteria searches in December. The largest change last...

Octane Capital makes sales team hires

Octane Capital has announced two new additions to its sales team. Hattie Hall joins Octane...

Roma Finance joins Mortgage Market Alliance

Roma Finance has become the latest founder member to join the Mortgage Market Alliance...

Suros Capital partners with Loans Warehouse

Luxury asset lender, Suros Capital, has joined the lender panel of specialist distributor, Loans...

Tuscan opens new regional office and creates director role

Bridging lender Tuscan Capital has made a new senior level broker-facing appointment and opened...

Hope Capital joins Optimum ELITE panel

Bridging lender Hope Capital has joined the Optimum ELITE lending panel. This partnership will provide...

Shawbrook acquires RateSetter team and portfolio

Shawbrook Bank has acquired RateSetter’s peer-to-peer funded development finance business. The deal includes the purchase...

Aspen funds Passivhaus development in six days

Aspen Bridging has completed a £450,000 facility to fund the final build stages of...

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...

COMMENT

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

AI is changing banking but trust will define who succeeds

For the past three years, the conversation around artificial intelligence in financial services has been dominated by technology. Every week seems to bring another...

Latest news

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

Rely cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

Rely has reduced rates by up to 25 basis points across a range of...

House price growth slows to 0.1%: Lloyds

UK house prices remained unchanged in July as higher mortgage rates and global economic...

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