Bridging

LendInvest to offer desktop valuations for short-term lending

LendInvest is now providing desktop valuations for its short-term loan products where physical valuations...

Alternative short-term lender launches

Suros Capital has launched today to provide short-term lending facilities specifically aimed at people...

Castle Trust cuts rates by 0.25 points

Castle Trust Bank has reduced rates on all of its term products by 0.25...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Record month for Funding 365

Funding 365 has reported that October was its biggest month to date, with loan...

Tuscan Capital unveils HMO offering

Tuscan Capital has introduced a new range of products aimed at investors looking to...

Alternative Bridging brings back overdraft product

Alternative Bridging Corporation has reintroduced its Alternative Overdraft product, offering lower rates and service-driven...

MFS partners with Vanquish Business Services

Bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has teamed up with Vanquish Business Services (Vanquish)...

Dynamo expands bridging panel

Greenfield Mortgages has joined Dynamo for Intermediaries' panel of bridging lenders. The deal means club...

Octane Capital unveils buy-to-let calculator

Octane Capital has launched a new calculator that it believes will cut the application...

Hope Capital unveils “Halloween treat for brokers”

Hope Capital has launched a special version of its Seventies Collection, with two revamped...

Shawbrook bridges urgent auction purchase

Shawbrook Bank has completed a bridging loan for a customer who needed short-term funding...

UTB refinances £34m Falmouth seafront development

United Trust Bank (UTB) is to refinance 53 luxury apartments being developed by housebuilders...

Four new appointments at Mint Bridging

Mint Bridging has made a number of new appointments to its team. Karen Shepherd has...

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

HSBC eases fixed-term contract criteria for residential borrowers

HSBC has widened its residential lending criteria for certain applicants employed on fixed-term contracts. Medical...

Stamp duty and community ties stall downsizing

Nearly three in five over-65s have considered downsizing but stamp duty, family ties and...

Fairfax steps down as Catalyst CEO

Catalyst Property Finance founder Chris Fairfax is stepping down as chief executive following the...

Mortgage fraud rises across every category

Mortgage-related fraud increased across every category tracked by Cifas during the first half of...

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