Loans

Robert Sinclair to present at V Loans webinar

V Loans is to hold a webinar with the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries’ chief...

GE to pull out of UK financial services

GE has put its GE Money brand in the UK up for sale. The move...

24% rise in second charge new business

Consumer finance new business grew by 7% in the 12 months to February 2015. Figures...

Significant rise in secured lending volumes

Loans Warehouse has reported that secured lending volumes in February were up 10.5% on...

Precise revamps secured loan offering

Precise Mortgages has introduced a new second charge loans product range. New range highlights include: ·...

FSE Manchester outlines lender exhibitors

Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester has revealed some of the intermediary lenders that will...

18 to 24-year-olds most likely to have a CCJ

27% of adults in the UK have, at some point, been contacted by a...

Smart Money: ignore Scotland at your peril

Smart Money has argued that Scotland represents untapped value for the specialist lending market,...

Prestige Finance increases maximum loan size

Prestige Finance is improving its large loan proposition with immediate effect with two changes...

Y3S drives high performance response

Cardiff-based specialist finance packager Y3S has added a new high performance vehicle to its...

Shawbrook IPO values business at £725m

Shawbrook Bank has announced the successful pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) of...

Shawbrook improves heavy refurb STL offering

Shawbrook Bank’s commercial mortgages division has made changes to its short-term loan (STL) product range. It is...

Nemo Personal Finance unveils fixed rate products

Secured lender Nemo Personal Finance has introduced new fixed rate product options. The new products...

AMI slams FCA fee hike proposals

The Association of Mortgages has responded with anger to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA)...

COMMENT

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...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

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MorganAsh launches calculator to help firms estimate scale of customer vulnerability

MorganAsh has launched a calculator designed to help financial services firms gauge how many...

Average mortgage rate reaches 5.50% as market reprices

The average mortgage rate tracked by Moneyfacts has climbed to 5.50% for the first...

RSM UK urges action as house price growth stalls and transactions fall

RSM UK is calling for stamp duty reform and more support for first-time buyers...

Clydesdale Bank raises selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a number of residential and buy-to-let product transfer rates from...

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