Loans

Blemain hires regional development director

Blemain Group has appointed Mark Rookyard as a new regional development director. Rookyard (pictured)...

Y3S releases miLoan V8 sourcing system

Y3S has upgraded its sourcing system for mortgage brokers. The Cardiff-based firm claims...

Fluent Money secures full authorisation

Fluent Money has announced that it is one of the first second charge distributors...

FLA reveals industry employment levels

Latest research published by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) reveals that FLA members...

Smethurst to don the lycra for charity

Wayne Smethurst, founder of specialist distributor TFC, has been challenged by managing director of...

New loan comparison site unveiled

FairMoney, a loan comparison site that claims to use the applicant’s credit profile to...

1st Stop Home Loans introduces packaging option

Second charge lender 1st Stop Home Loans has launched a packaging service option, so...

Quartet join Vantage Finance

Vantage Finance has hired four more members of staff. Zoe Brooks has been appointed as...

Access 4 Finance in #treatingintroducersfairly pledge

Access 4 Finance, the business to business secured loan broker, have unveiled a business...

MPC unanimous in rate hold decision

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously in favour of keeping the...

Positive Lending launches second charge sourcing system

Specialist packager Positive Lending has unveiled 360 Sourcing, which offers intermediaries a secured loan sourcing platform. Intermediaries...

Ezbob rebrands broker channel

Small business lender ezbob has announced a rebrand for its intermediary facing business, which...

Twenty7Tec launches mortgage, secured and bridging software

Twenty7Tec has introduced a combined mortgage, secured and bridging loan sourcing system. It utilises MortgageSource, Twenty7Tec’s mortgage sourcing...

Shawbrook offers FCA permissions guidance

The commercial mortgages division of Shawbrook Bank has released its own set of guidelines around FCA...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Together strengthens intermediary team with senior account manager hire

Together has added further experience to its broker-facing team, with Annie Crust bringing more...
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Project 28 Charter opens membership to widen push for faster property transactions

The Project 28 Charter has opened membership to organisations across the property transaction chain...
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Tembo appoints James Young to lead data and insights

Tembo has appointed James Young as director of data and insights as the savings...

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