Bridging

Alpha Bridging to establish BDM team

Alpha Bridging has revealed plans to build a national sales team after recruiting business...

Bridging market still seeing 25% annual growth

The latest West One Bridging Index has found that the UK bridging market...

First 4 Bridging appoints managing director

Master broker First 4 Bridging has recruited Lorenzo Satchell as its new managing director. He...

New P2P personal asset lender unveiled

Unbolted, an online-only peer-to-peer lending platform that lets consumers use their high-value personal assets...

Do bridging lenders earn a fair reward for the risks they take?

Bridging and short term finance is effectively project facilitating capital, and not funding to...

Smart Money moves into bridging finance

Smart Money will be adding full bridging support for intermediaries to its services from...

Vantage Finance appoints head of sales

Vantage Finance has recruited Tim Bennett as its new head of sales. The packager says...

Wilkins Kennedy LLP joins the ASTL

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has recruited another new associate member, Wilkins...

ASTL: bridging loans exceed £2bn during 2014

The Association of Short Term Lenders’ (ASTL) latest quarterly figures on the size of...

Capital Bridging steps in to finance office block purchase

Capital Bridging Finance has provided a loan of £3.2m to purchase an office block...

Jerrold Holdings extends and expands securitisation facility

Jerrold Holdings, Blemain's parent, has extended its revolving securitisation programme, while also increasing...

UTB completes £7.5m City bridging loan

United Trust Bank has completed a £7.5m short term bridging loan for...

Shawbrook sees improvement in STL turnaround times

Shawbrook Bank has reported an improvement in turnaround times and efficiency in October for...

Bridging lender takes over competitor

Capital Bridging Finance has acquired Mayfair Bridging. Mayfair will continue to operate under its own...
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Fixed rates

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,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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Hope Capital secures £35 million HTB funding line

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Nottingham Building Society backs Instamo broker padel event

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Warhol collection helps secure £310k loan for home improvements

A high-net-worth client has secured a £310,000 short-term loan against a collection of Andy...
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Brokers urged to strengthen sanctions checks

Mortgage and financial services firms are being urged to review their sanctions controls after...

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