Loans

Y3S Group takes 50% stake in secured loans packager

Y3S Group has acquired 50% of Chaseblue Loans Ltd. Both businesses package secured loans for...

Simon Stern exits Prestige Finance

Simon Stern, business development director at Prestige Finance, is leaving the business. Stern had been...

Research shines a light on deliberate non-payers

A YouGov survey of 2,010 people for Equifax found that 16% of Britons have...

Tenet unveils consumer credit compliance service

Tenet says it believes most financial advisers need consumer credit authorisation, but that...

MiLoanbroker hits 6,000 user mark

MiLoanbroker.com, the free secured loans sourcing system from Y3S Loans, has registered over 6,000...

Best month for seconds in six years

Loans Warehouse has reported a total of £65,537,155 in second charge mortgages lent in...

Successful funding round for P2P lender

Landbay has completed its first institutional funding round. The peer-to-peer lending platform focused on the...

11% year-on-year rise in second charge volumes

Consumer finance new business grew by 7% in October compared with the same month...

V Loans to expand services following FCA permission

V Loans, the specialist secured lending arm of KR Group, has been granted full...

P2P lender expands down under

ThinCats announced the launch of joint ventures in Australia and Poland earlier this year...

Osborne’s IHT stance criticised by P2P lender

Alternative peer-to-peer lender HNW Lending has expressed its disappointment that in his Autumn Statement...

Seconds to break £1bn barrier next year?

The second charge loans market will more than double in size within three years,...

‘Mortgage into retirement’ options still available

Brightstar Financial has publicised that ‘mortgage into retirement’ options remain available within the intermediary...

Manor Mortgages chooses second charge preferred provider

Manor Mortgages has appointed Promise Solutions as its preferred provider of secured loans for...

COMMENT

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,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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